Posted by Steve on 10/09/07 22:30

"Steve" <StevePBurgess@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I need to store chinese characters and Pinyins in a mysql database
> and then read them from php and using the GD library and
> imagettftext() function to create an image based on a chinese ttf font
> of the chinese characters.
>
> I have tried setting the encoding in the database as UTF-8 and BIG5
> but the characters display (both in MYSQL and when displayed via PHP)
> as question marks.
>
> Can anyone help?

do you actually have the chinese font installed on the server, or where php
can access it? you have to specify the font (file) php should use.

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