..er..I didn't mention ISO-8859. How is UTF-8 supported with fonts? Which API's and fonts should be used? In particular, on a linux box (CentOS 5.2)?
I assumed the iso10646-1 fonts would work as they seemed to be designed for UTF-8. Thanks. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:36:23 -0800 > [email protected] wrote: > > | Still looking for any info on UTF-8 font support. Thanks. > | > | On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Greg Denton <[email protected]> wrote: > | > Trying to write UTF-8 text to an image without any luck. I've spent > | > several hours reading docs and googling. > | > > | > /usr/bin/xlsfonts shows: > | > ... > | > -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso10646-1 > | > -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1 > | > ... > | > > | > (BTW, this seems like an excellent page for these fonts: > | > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html) > | > > | > program has: > | > > img.font("-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso10646-1"); > | > img.textEncoding("UTF-8"); > | > img.annotate(s, Magick::Geometry(0, 0, x, y)); > | > > | > The string "s" has the UTF-8 "cent" sign (0xC2, 0xA2), but it shows as > | > 2 chars, per ISO 8859. > | > > | > My guess is that textEncoding does not work with the X11 bitmapped > | > fonts, but I can't find anything at all on the web (should be some > | > discussion somewhere). > | > > | > Is there any way to do UTF-8 with the X11 bitmapped fonts? Thanks. > | > > > It works with UTF-8 but not with the ISO-8859 character set which is > different! > > > Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[email protected]> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? > None. It's a hardware problem. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ > _______________________________________________ > Magick-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users > _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
