Outputing Multibyte characters with GD2

[Frankie902]

Does anyone know how to do this?

[kows]

whats a multibyte character again?

[CornedBee]

An ANSI or UTF-8 multibyte character: used mostly for asian languages, consists of more than one byte.
In UTF-8, many more characters are multi-byte as there are no code pages. E.g. ä, ö and ü are multi-byte in UTF-8 but only single-byte in ANSI with the right codepage (with the wrong codepage they show up incorrectly).

[Frankie902]

can anyone help me with this?

[phpman]

what code do you have now?

[Frankie902]

<?php
  header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
  $im = imagecreate(400,30);
  $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255,255,255);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0,0,0);
  imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "F:\web\msgothic.ttc", "‚±‚ñ‚É‚¿‚Í");
  imagejpeg($im);
  imagedestroy($im);
?>

[phpman]

for one are you sure the freetype library is installed? you have to have that along with the GD Library. also that is not a correct path.

what do you get when you do this

$im = ImageCreate (100, 100) or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
// ($im, 5, 5, 5,)  1st ($im, 5, 5, 5, is the font size
// 2nd  is the distasnce from left
// 3rd is from top.
ImageString ($im, 5, 5, 5, "‚±‚ñ‚É‚¿‚Í", $text_color);
ImagePng($im,"imagePNG.png");
ImageDestroy($im);
echo "<img src=\"imagePNG.png\" border=0>"; 

but if that doesn't work then you might not be able to use commas in the text string.

[Frankie902]

Here is it with your code: http://suneo.no-ip.com/jap.php
and with the code I used: http://suneo.no-ip.com/ttf.php

I do have FreeType installed or else that wouldn't work at all.

The string is japanese text, im not sure if you can see it...

[Frankie902]

Here is what I posted on another forum, it includes extra details just incase it helps:

I want to write a script that will generate a dynamic image that contains japanese text. The server is setup for japanese and I have the fonts that contain the japanese characters. This is the result image I get when I try to display japanese text with imagettftext: http://suneo.no-ip.com/ttf.php Does anyone know what I have to do to get it to work?

[phpman]

well it seems mine works and your doesn't. can you upload that ttc file? actually what is that ttc file? it isn't a font, at least not an any system I have seen. most fonts are ttf fonts.

did you fix the path? I se little block boxes as the font is not there.

[Frankie902]

TTC is a "TrueType Collection Font File" its basically more than one font in the same file. The font is the japanese version of MS Gothic. http://suneo.no-ip.com/msgothic.ttc

[phpman]

my god 8mb? k will play around with it and see what I can get.

[phpman]

My guess is that the font is lacking UTF-8 mapping tables.

I have read of the little blocks and this is what they say. nothing wrong with code as that is what I get as well.

[Frankie902]

what font has them?

[phpman]

beats me. read this


http://www.php.net/imagetftext

and go down to the user comments. the one dated may 2003

they say the samething as I just did. I have no clue what the tables are that it needs.

[Frankie902]

I found a patch for the php source that adds japanese support. But I am having a hell of a hard time trying to compile PHP. Do you know of any step by step tutorials that could help me?

[phpman]

sorry, I run windows and never compiled it. look at www.php.net to find it.