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. > _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
