PHP output text on image character encoding error

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setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');
imagestring( $my_img, 4, $colC, $row1, money_format('%(#5n', $rates[0][0]), $text_colour );

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header( "Content-type: image/png" );
imagepng( $my_img );
imagecolordeallocate( $line_colour );
imagecolordeallocate( $text_colour );
imagecolordeallocate( $background );
imagedestroy( $my_img );

Everything works fine, however I have a strange error...

The currency symbol looks wrong. Instead of showing a £ sign, it shows an A with a caret on top and what looks like the bottom half of a pound sign.

So I tried to remove the .UTF-8 and the A with a caret disappears but it still only shows the bottom half of the pound sign.

What I want, is simply a £ sign. Can anybody help please???

PHP Error

Esailija · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07 19:05:24Z

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According to the documentation, imagestring only supports Latin2 in the default font, which cannot encode £. Even if it could encode £, you should have converted your UTF-8 to Latin2 before passing it.

Use imageTtfText which supports UTF-8. You need to point it to a working TrueType font file in the 7th argument.

answered Dec 7, 2012 at 19:05

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