Note: I haven't actually ever tried to put non-latin character s in an image, but I think this is the proper thing to do.

First of all, I believe imagettftext() accepts string in the UTF-8 encoding. SO, the first thing to try would be to convert to UTF-8l

mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8','iso-8859-2');

And, if that doesn't work. Ensure the font you're specifying can handle the characters you're giving it. (Arial Unicode would probably be a safe test font)

hope this helped.

Chris

Graham Anderson wrote:

How can I get Polish , iso-8859-2, text,  to output properly ?
PHP is reading the accent characters as blocks

I tried this, but it did not work...

// Set up text for a 'Polish' button
$text = "rozwiązania";
$text = mb_convert_encoding($text, "iso-8859-2","Auto");

//  Composit the text over a button image and output it
imagettftext($im, $fontSize, 0, 11, 16, $white, $font, $text);

Ultimately, I want to pass a $language variable to the script to get it to output to any number of supported languages
is there a simple function that does this ?

many thanks in advance :)
g


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