Annotate() not working for arabic text?

[bikash00789]

Why arabic is coming question mark? I have tried lot of things nothing worked

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$final_image = new Imagick();
$final_image->newImage( 800, 420, new ImagickPixel('#ffffff'));
$final_image->setImageFormat('jpg');

$draw = new ImagickDraw();
$draw->setFillColor('#000');
$draw->setFont('AvantGarde-Demi');
$draw->setFontSize( 30 );

//Message1 is Hello my name is
$message1= "مرحبا اسمي";
$final_image->annotateImage( $draw, 40, 20, 0, "$message1");

$final_image->annotateImage( $draw, 40, 80, 0, "this text is in english");

Below is the output,

screencapture-cdn-meaww-com-answerspictures-one_word_personality-20160811-19505031470919935-17-jpg-1470920421391.png (32.42 KiB) Viewed 12292 times

[fmw42]

The message1 text must be UTF-8 compatible. So the font and the tool that creates it both must be UTF-8 compliant