Re: Fwd: Re: Subject: GD, UNICODE & RTL

Well if you *insist* on using GD - but I promise you, CSS is a better way to do this. You will need to generate your string, spilt the string into an array of characters using the # character as a separator, then join your array in reverse order to a new (reversed) string. You can then pass this string to the imagettftext function. Of course, I am assuming you know how to use the GD functions, and that you have a suitable arabic font with corresponding Unicode characters. Try this : $myunicode="#4324#1221#1222#0133#0421#4219#1311"; // I made this string up - insert real unicode characters here $mychararray=explode("#",$myunicode); // Split into array of single unicode characters $mychararray=array_reverse($mychararray); // Reverse the array elements $mynewunicode=join("#",$mychararray); // Rejoin the elements with a # character print("result so far :".$mynewunicode."<br>"); $mynewunicode="#".substr($mynewunicode,0,-1); // Using join, there will be a trailing # and // no required # at the start -- fix that print($mynewunicode); Then you can pass the $mynewunicode string to your TTF functions. Hope that helps Regards, Neil Smith. At 10:17 07/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Fwd: Re: Subject: GD, UNICODE & RTL Hi all and thanks, my problem: I want to create my bitmaps with GD functions, I call GD functions (like imagettftext()) and send them any RTL sentence, but it write and crate it LTR!!! thanks a lot :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Smith" <neil@fresh-toast.uklinux.net> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: [PHP-WIN] Fwd: Re: Subject: GD, UNICODE & RTL Oops - missed a bit : Look here for mozilla information and examples on bi directional text: http://www.langbox.com/bidimozilla/ Also check "text-kashida-space" and "writing-mode " here : http://www.georgehernandez.com/xWebs/CSS/CSSAttributes.htm regards, Neil.

Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:42:09 +0000 To: php-windows@lists.php.net From: Neil Smith <neil@fresh-toast.uklinux.net> Subject: Re: Subject: GD, UNICODE & RTL Cc: manghool@myrealbox.com Mottaghi - you might be better advised to investigate CSS for this on the browser :