[magick-users] UTF-8 and X11 iso10646-1 fonts using C++ API on linux

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:36:23 -0800
magick-users-bounces at imagemagick.org wrote:

| Still looking for any info on UTF-8 font support. Thanks.
| 
| On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Greg Denton <greg.denton at gmail.com> 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!


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