labels text encoding

[phobos]

Hello!
Help me please, i have problem with encoding in labels!
try to use example http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/
Adding Borders

and i aad label "Россия" (russian language) and get the following :




problem in the coding or in the font?
how to write label or caption on russian?

[anthony]

You need to match the text encoding with the font. Typically you use a Unicode text with Unicode font.
The characters that appears on the image look like Unicode 'meta' characters, rather that a simpler 8-bit text format using russian meta characters (8-bit codes > 127).

You can use a command such as "iconv" on many machines to convert from practically any text format to some other text format (like unicode). I myself have used it to convert chinese 'gb' text to unicode for printing purposes.

A newer version of "iconv" is known as "recode"


In perl you can use something like the "Encode" library module.

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   use Encode;
   $text = 'Текст кириллица';
   $text = encode("utf8", decode("cp1251", $text));
   print "$text\n";

( I have no idea where I got this last from originally, I just saved it for future use).

[phobos]

very thank you!
$mystr='тестовая строка';

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 $mystr = iconv("windows-1251", "utf-8", $mystr); 
$run = exec('convert thumbnail.gif \
          -bordercolor black -border 3   -bordercolor white -border 2 \
          \( -background black -fill white -pointsize 24 \
             label:'.$mystr.'   -trim +repage \
             -bordercolor black -border 10 \
          \) -gravity South -append \
          -bordercolor black -border 10   -gravity South -chop 0x10 \
          border_framework.gif',$out,$err); 

it is option work good in php!