german 'umlaute' in -draw 'text'

[Jens Struwe]

hello, dear list,

i try to produce textimages with german specialchars. äöüß -> äöüß
i use IM 5.4.8 from php both under linux mandrake 9 and win 2000.

i give the convert-tool the absolute font-path like '/usr/X11/.../TTF/comic.ttf'.
all the fonts of this path are copied from c:/winnt/fonts/

the problem is, in most cases the result of converting are cryptic signs,
but with fonts like 'times new roman' or 'arial' the convert works fine.

what can i do?

my statement is

convert -pointsize 20 fill '#FF0000' -font '/usr/X11/.../TTF/comic.ttf' -trim "label:äöüß" test.png


bye jens

[p***@studio.imagemagick.org]

? i try to produce textimages with german specialchars. äöüß -> ä

This was fixed then broken in previous releases of ImageMagick. The latest
release, 5.5.2 should handle the special characters correctly. I believe
ImageMagick 5.5.1 does as well.

[Jens Struwe]

Post by p***@studio.imagemagick.org
? i try to produce textimages with german specialchars. äöüß -> ä
This was fixed then broken in previous releases of ImageMagick. The latest
release, 5.5.2 should handle the special characters correctly. I believe
ImageMagick 5.5.1 does as well.

OK! super. it was very difficult to install from sourcecode but successfull.

and now! what ist with € = € ?