annotate utf8 magick++

[nicolas1]

Hello,

I have a problem to make "annotate" produce right russian symbols. Input string is in utf8 encoding, the output results in not correct symbols. Seems as ansi of utf8.

How can to output symbols correct in magick++ or magick core?

Thanks

[anthony]

Make sure you have a font that included the UTF characters, and that your environment 'locale' is set to use UTF.

[nicolas1]

simple call:

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image->font("arial");
image->textEncoding("UTF-8");
image->annotate(annotate_text, text_geometry);

and no success...

[nicolas1]

SOLVED:

It is required full path specification to unicode font.
for example:

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  magick_image->font("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts/tahoma.ttf");

[anthony]

Yes, unless the font is added to either the system "type.xml" or the users "type.xml" file. See notes about this on the top level of IM examples. (I really should move this into the 'fonts' section).