Posted by Azeus on 06/15/77 11:20

Gordan wrote:
> Im using imagettftext to write some text on my image. I'm on Win XP and using
> the plain arial.ttf font that I copied from win dir
> my typical line would be
> imagettftext($im, 33, 0, 20, 500, $black, 'arial.ttf', $text);
>
> everything is perfect except the tab "\t" sign
> if I set $text = "something\tsomething" the tab gets displayed but it also
> displays some rectangle like "this char is in wrong encoding" or something like
> that. Basically I get two chars out of "\t" the tab and that rectangle. Using
> "\n" is normal - it just splits my text in 2 lines. But I'm very confused with
> this "\t" issue :-( Is there another way to make tabs?
>
> thanks gordan
>
>

\t is an escape character. So in order to display the '\' you have to
escape the '\' :)

like this :
$text = "something\\tsomething"

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