PHP Image Create with UTF-8 Character

Question

When I create an image with PHP, it does not display UTF-8 characters properly.

$imgPath = 'uplatnica1.jpg';
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imgPath);
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 000, 000, 000);

$string = "šđčćž";
$x = 70;
$y = 200;

$fontSize = 3;

imagestring($image, $fontSize, $x, $y, $string, $color);
imagejpeg($image, 'qwe.jpg');

How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

It's always good to read documentation prior asking

font

Can be 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

and UTF8 is not subset of latin2

Answer 2

You could check out imagettftext .

Your code will become:

$imgPath = 'uplatnica1.jpg';
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imgPath);
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 000, 000, 000);

$string = "šđčćž";
$x = 70;
$y = 200;

$fontSize = 3;
$fontFile = 'verdana.ttf'; // This file must reside on your system

imagettftext($image, $fontSize, 0, $x, $y, $color, $fontFile, $string);
imagejpeg($image, 'qwe.jpg');

Don't forget that your $fontFile must exist on the server and be accessible by the code.