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Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext [message #177885 is a reply to message #177877]

Wed, 25 April 2012 12:06

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/25/2012 5:18 AM, Erwin Moller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just found something strange in the documentation (or my understanding
> of it).
> During some modification I am making to an older project I found I was
> using named entities (like ©) during true type font rendering.
> And that shouldn't work, according to the documentation, but it does
> work just fine.
>
> The function imagettftext(...) will write a text on an image-resource
> using a True Type font.
>
> Here follows a code snippet:
> $inImgText = " ∅ 50 mm)";
> imagettftext($myImg, $size, 0, $x, $y, $black, $font,$inImgText);
>
> (I left not related code out.)
>
> The result is the text: ∅ 50 mm appearing on the image, as intended.
> (In case the characters didn't survive it to your newsreader, that is
> DIAMETER symbol, followed by 50 mm)
>
> But according to the documentation it shouldn't.
> It clearly states "Named entities, such as ©, are not supported.".
> (Relevant part copied hereunder)
>
> What am I missing here?
> Or is the documentation wrong and ARE named entities supported?
>
> (I am using PHP 5.2.0 on this system)
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>
>
> [source]
> http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php
> ======================================================================
> TEXT
> The text string in UTF-8 encoding.
>
> May include decimal numeric character references (of the form: €)
> to access characters in a font beyond position 127. The hexadecimal
> format (like ©) is supported. Strings in UTF-8 encoding can be
> passed directly.
>
> Named entities, such as ©, are not supported. Consider using
> html_entity_decode() to decode these named entities into UTF-8 strings
> (html_entity_decode() supports this as of PHP 5.0.0).
>
> If a character is used in the string which is not supported by the font,
> a hollow rectangle will replace the character.
> ======================================================================
>
>

This has nothing to do with PHP.

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		Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Erwin Moller on Wed, 25 April 2012 09:18
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 25 April 2012 12:06
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Erwin Moller on Wed, 25 April 2012 13:34
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 25 April 2012 13:41
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 25 April 2012 17:11
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Peter H. Coffin on Wed, 25 April 2012 12:21
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: Erwin Moller on Wed, 25 April 2012 12:57
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: M. Strobel on Wed, 25 April 2012 17:17
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: M. Strobel on Wed, 25 April 2012 20:49
		Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 26 April 2012 07:50

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