Question

Finally I had to recompile PHP with --enable-gd-jis-conv.
However the text display is wrong, in Japanese.

$text = '夏の天気';
$fontfile = '/usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/sazanami-mincho.ttf';

return imagettftext ($image, $size,  $angle,  $x,  $y,  $color, $fontfile, $text);

But different kanji (Japanese characters) are displayed instead (very different, looks like Chinese).

Could it be an encoding issue?

Using PHP 5.3.3 on RHEL 5.4.

Answer 1

I had to run this to get it to work

$text = mb_convert_encoding('夏の天気', "SJIS", 'UTF-8');