Posted by Steve on 11/15/07 06:41

Thanks for all your advice. I am now in a position where I can get the
chinese characters into MySQL successfully and read them from it with
PHP and display appropriately in the browser (the problem seemed to be
caused by multi-byte characters occupying more "length" in the table.
I had, naively, thought that a VARCHAR of length 3 would be enough to
contain 3 chinese characters. Not so.).

I am now experiencing problems with displaying the characters using
imagettftext().

When I use the cyberbit.ttf font all characters (attempted thus far)
display perfectly.

http://mychinesename.co.uk/createimage.php?type=main&trans=3&Name=Suzanne

But using fonts located on the internet I get different results

http://mychinesename.co.uk/createimage.php?type=main&trans=3&Name=Suzanne&font=1
(font wcl-02 from http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html)

http://mychinesename.co.uk/createimage.php?type=main&trans=3&Name=Suzanne&font=2
(font wts11 from http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html)

With only some of the characters appearing.

Is this likely to be an encoding/character set problem or is it simply
because those characters are not in the character set.

Many thanks, in anticipation

Steve

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