Characters Decoding & Image creation

[jonsof]

What is the general method about writing strings in images using your own fonts OR decoding correctly the string which is being pulled from the database.

if you look at http://members.lycos.co.uk/jonsof/output_program/image_program/test_image.php you will notice that some strings are not decoded correctly when they are being written to the image.

These characters are greeks, do you know what to do to come up with this situation???

Thanks in advance

[jonsof]

Any ideas?

[jonsof]

Any help?

[zdrax]

Try this modified code from TTF fonts and Russian in PHP4's GD. It seems to work ok on:

• Win 2000 pro

• Apache 1.3.19

• php 4.3.0

• gd 2

function iso2uni ($isoline){
    for ($i=0; $i < strlen($isoline); $i++){
        $thischar=substr($isoline,$i,1);
        $charcode=ord($thischar);
        $uniline.=($charcode>175) ? "&#" . (896+($charcode-176)). ";" : $thischar;
    }
    return $uniline;
}
 Header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = imagecreate(400,30);
$black = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$rr= "ÊÁËÇÌÅÑÁ";
ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "c:\\windows\\fonts\\couri.ttf", iso2uni($rr));

imagepng($im);

ImageDestroy($im);

Hope it helped.