Re: Re: imagettftext and utf-8 (swedish characters)

Jochem Maas skrev:

I guess I skimmed somewhat too ... but I based my assumption on the following from the OPs post: /index.php/slides/upload: $title = htmlentities($_POST['title'], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); $image = '/index.php/slides/preview?title='.urlencode($title).'&content='.urlencode($_POST['content']); so the script handle the form submission looks to be generating a url used as the src of an img. Yes, the script generates an url to the script that renders the image. $image is later used in an img-tag. Maybe there is another way to solve this but this was the only thing I could think of.

I have noted that if I use numerical html entities for åäö (Å for instance) I can see the characters correctly. I guess that would mean the string passed is *not* correct utf-8. Here is the current source: $title = htmlentities( stripslashes($_POST['title']), ENT_NOQUOTES, "utf-8" ); $content = htmlentities( stripslashes($_POST['content']), ENT_NOQUOTES, "utf-8" ); $image = '/index.php/slides/preview?title='.urlencode($title).'&content='.urlencode($content)."&align=$align"; ... $title = html_entity_decode(get('title'), ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8'); $im = imagecreatetruecolor(800, 600); $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);

//    $font = "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf";

$font = "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf"; $title_size = 42; imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 800, 600, $black); $this->_string_centered($im, 70, $title_size, $font, $white, $title); header("Content-Type: image/png"); imagepng($im);

    Thus, it leads me back to my previous guess that the font he chose

(georgia.ttf) doesn't have Swedish characters in the set. With that, I'm not sure, though, because I don't have the Georgia font pack on here, so it'll have to stay as a guess for now.

Georgia.tff should cover swedish characters - atleast it does on my system (MPB) ... my little test script in my other post on this thread works for me ... I have no idea if one should/could expect variations of supported characters in a TTF font file depending on the system your on (my guess would be you could rely on all systems that have said TTF file to support the same chars - I assume that although it may be compiled diffferently for different platforms the source font definition is going to be the same) All fonts I have tried works in other applications with utf-8. (I run lamp on my own workstation at the moment).

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