Re: imagettftext and utf-8 (swedish characters)

David Sveningsson wrote:

Hi, I've ran into some problems when outputing text to an image using imagettftext. I cannot get swedish characters to work, I just get a square. I've tried different fonts which I know has those characters (bitstream vera, arial, times new roman, etc). What am I doing wrong? I know I must pass utf-8 encoded text and I belive I do but I don't know how to check it. HTML form code: (html document uses utf-8 as charset and apache is set to use utf-8 too) <form action="/index.php/slides/upload" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> <input type="text" id="title" name="title" size="70" value="" /> </form> /index.php/slides/upload: $title = htmlentities($_POST['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); $image = '/index.php/slides/preview?title='.urlencode($title).'&content='.urlencode($_POST['content']); /index.php/slides/preview: function preview(){

    $title = html_entity_decode($_GET['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
    //$title = $_GET['title'];

    ///@note Hardcoded resolution
    $im  = imagecreatetruecolor(800, 600);
    $black  = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
    $white  = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
    $font = "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/georgia.ttf";

    $title_size = 32;

    imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 800, 600, $black);

    imagettftext( $im, $title_size, 0, 50, 50, $white, $font, $title );
        header("Content-Type: image/png");
    imagepng($im);
    exit();

}

try changing: imagettftext( $im, $title_size, 0, 50, 50, $white, $font, $title ); to: imagettftext($im, $title_size, 0, 50, 50, $white, $font, utf8_decode($title));