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Caption error with french accent
Posted: 2013-04-03T15:12:52-07:00
by zakdo
Hi!
I am getting wrong output character when using caption with french accent. Example:
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@ECHO OFF
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -gravity center ^
-font "C:\Windows\Fonts\timesbd.ttf" ^
-size 292x208 caption:"Test With accent â ù é" ^
C:\Users\ZAK\Desktop\output.gif
results in:
(note we don't have "â ù é")
my convert version is:
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C:\Users\ZAK>convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.4-6 2013-04-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib fontconfig freetype jng jp2 jpeg lcms lzma pango png ps tiff x
xml zlib
Thx
Re: Caption error with french accent
Posted: 2013-04-03T15:23:24-07:00
by magick
Convert your text to UTF8 and make sure your font supports UTF8 encoding. We standardized on UTF8 because its supported both under Linux and Windows.
Re: Caption error with french accent
Posted: 2013-04-03T17:49:54-07:00
by snibgo
I find the Windows command processor usually mucks up commands containing UTF-8 text. I'm sure there is a workaround, but I don't know what it is.
Instead, I put the text in a file, saved as UTF-8, and "@" caption. Thus ...
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"%IMG%convert" -background lightblue -fill blue -gravity center ^
-font "C:\Windows\Fonts\timesbd.ttf" ^
-size 292x208 caption:@capt.txt ^
output.gif
... where capt.txt is a text file, saved with Notepad as UTF-8, containing:
Re: Caption error with french accent
Posted: 2013-04-04T17:02:34-07:00
by anthony
Future...
In IMv7, the "magick" scripting will should not muck up UTF-8.
Using "magick" scripting should make IM scripts more portible between all machines as it avoids DOS or Shell script interpretations.
However there are quite a number of things that still needs to be added to make "magick-scripting" useful, such as script argument handling.
Re: Caption error with french accent
Posted: 2013-04-22T06:09:25-07:00
by zakdo
Hi,
I solved my problem by using "chcp 1252" in DOS for converting to ANSI character :
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@ECHO OFF
chcp 1252
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -gravity center ^
-font "C:\Windows\Fonts\timesbd.ttf" ^
-size 292x208 caption:"Test With accent â ù é" ^
C:\Users\ZAK\Desktop\output.gif
Thanks