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

[Greg Denton]

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.