Generating a Strip of Malayaalam Characters

[libin_v]

Hi all,

I am trying to generate a strip of Malayalam characters, using Imagemagick

I tried using the following, but I get only "???".

############ uni.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
print "\x{0D10}\x{0D20}\x{0D30}";

###################

$ perl uni.pl | convert -font ML-TTKarthika-Normal label:@- label.gif

Unicode = http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf
Font = http://www.deepika.com/font.htm

Please help

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Regards,
Libin

[anthony]

Question marks usually means the font did NOT understand the unicode.

Are you sure the font is available and has those characters?

As you did not specify the fonts TTF file directly, did you actually add it to the IM configuration files?

Try adding -debug annotate to see how IM is handling the font and character rendering.