Good day monks. I am using method stringFT in GD to generate text inside some graphics. In this text I want to include some up- and down-arrows. I have loaded the Arial font, and it has these charasters in its extended charset. The according to the windoze special char browser, the uparrow is char 2191 hex and the down arrow is 2193 hex.

Trouble is I don't know how to specify a unicode char in stringFT. The docs offer a "charmap" option to method stringFT but the authors says "The interaction between Perl, Unicode and libgd is not clear to me, and you should experiment a bit if you want to use this feature." (Geez, if he doesn't even understand it...)

The docs don't give any charmap examples so I'm not even sure how to experiment. Your advice appreciated!

Steve

In reply to Using Unicode chars in GD by cormanaz

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