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@NogDogMay 08.2008 — #Not sure, but you could see if this makes a difference:
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I would guess it's a limitation of the font being used, perhaps?@NogDogMay 08.2008 — #I didn't know this, but according to the imagettftxt manual page:
[noparse]So you should be able to do the Euro with "& # 128;" and the Pound with "& # 163;" (without the spaces I used here) directly in your quoted string literal.[/noparse]
imagestring text looks funny when using currency symbols in a dynamic image
Im trying to generate an image dynamically and some text within the image may contain a british pound currency symbol £
Instead of it dislaying the symbol correctly it displays some strange looking A with a ^ above the top of the a followed by a t like shape
Instead of displaying the correct £
What am i doing wrong
Im using
[code]imagestring($image, 2, 60, $count, $row[‘name’].’ Gave £’.$row[‘donation’], $tx);
to test out what it would look like with a british pound symbol in front of the value but cant figure out why it doesnt look right
I tried with a dollar symbol and it displayed just fine
But hen i use pound symbols or yen symbols or euro etc etc it does not display correctly
Is there anything i can do to fix this within my code?
Thaks in advance
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@NogDogMay 08.2008 — #Not sure, but you could see if this makes a difference:[code=php]
$pound = chr(163); // Pound currency symbol
imagestring($image, 2, 60, $count, $row['name'].' Gave '.$pound.$row['donation'], $tx);
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@NogDogMay 08.2008 — #thanks NogDog that seems to have worked, it doesnt really look like a pound symbol though it kind of has the top curve missing, any ideas why this is?[/QUOTE]
I would guess it's a limitation of the font being used, perhaps?
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@NogDogMay 08.2008 — #I didn't know this, but according to the imagettftxt manual page:[noparse]
The text string in UTF-8 encoding.
May include decimal numeric character references (of the form: &# 8364? [space inserted by me so you can see the actual text] to access characters in a font beyond position 127. The hexadecimal format (like ©? is supported as of PHP 5.2.0. Strings in UTF-8 encoding can be passed directly.
[/noparse][/quote]
[noparse]So you should be able to do the Euro with "& # 128;" and the Pound with "& # 163;" (without the spaces I used here) directly in your quoted string literal.[/noparse]