Chinese characters and GD?

[NuPagady]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to write a php+gd+imagettftext script which would support as many languages as possible. Everything seems to be working fine with European languages (German, Lithuanian..), but when I try to use Chinese characters, squares appears instead of Chinese characters (see the attached image).

Do you know how to successfully output Chinese characters by gd?


Thanks
- Paul

 

[Kate]

My guess is that you don't have the suitable font installed on your system.
Perhaps some useful info here: http://www.aip.de/~weber/doc/jpgraph/docs/html/2installation.html

 

[NuPagady]

Thanks. Yes, I didn't have a Chinese font. I will try to find one.

 

[NuPagady]

Just a quick update:

I fixed the problem by using Microsoft's unicode Arial font:
arialuni.ttf

Everything works fine now. Thanks for help!