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Asked: 2026-06-08T05:18:44+00:00

How can i create an € sign with imagettftext() ? I’m using the font

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How can i create an € sign with imagettftext()?
I’m using the font ‘Lucida Grande’ which contains the euro sign.
€ does not work, too.

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  1. Editorial Team

    See the documentation (emphasis mine):

    The text string in UTF-8 encoding.

    May include decimal numeric character references (of the form:
    €) to access characters in a font beyond position 127.     The
    hexadecimal format (like ©) is supported. Strings in UTF-8
    encoding can be passed directly.

    Named entities, such as ©, are not supported. Consider using
    html_entity_decode() to decode these named entities into UTF-8 strings
    (html_entity_decode() supports this as of PHP 5.0.0).

    If a character is used in the string which is not supported by the
    font, a hollow rectangle will replace the character.

    You can try using the actual € character, or decoding it, or using the decimal character reference. See here for the entry in FileFormat.Info Unicode Lookup, which has all the code formats: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/index.htm. In this case it would be €.

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