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Re: Usage of named entities (HTML) in imagettftext [message #177892 is a reply to message #177891]

Wed, 25 April 2012 13:41

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/25/2012 9:34 AM, Erwin Moller wrote:
> On 4/25/2012 2:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>
>> This has nothing to do with PHP.
>>
>
> Why not, Jerry?
>
> If I see something working (as in producing the right result on the
> actual image) and the PHPdocs says it is not supported, I wonder what is
> going on.
>
> GD(2) libs are used to do the actual rendering on the image, but it
> isn't clear for the programmer (me) if PHP performs any funky stuff
> (like html_entity_decode) on the strings before passing them through to GD.
>
> http://www.libgd.org/ is down for some time now. I hoped to find some
> info there first since boutell.com itself isn't very clear.
> This is the best I could find (on boutell):
> http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.33.html#fonts
>
> But possibly I am looking in all the wrong places. :-(
>
> Where would you suggest I should inquire about this 'issue' if not in
> c.l.php?
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>
>

No, this is part of the GD library. All PHP has is a wrapper to the
library. PHP has no control over what characters the GD library supports.

You'll get much better answers if you ask in the GD library support
(sorry, I have no idea where this is - I never looked). They know what
their library is and is not capable of.

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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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