Generating image with regional language - php

Question

Hi i am trying to generate image with regional language.for normal english i do this
// Set the content-type
header('Content-Type: image/png');
// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);
// Create some colors
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);
// The text to draw
$text = 'Testing...';
// Replace path by your own font path
$font = 'arial.ttf';
// Add some shadow to the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);
// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
But for regional language it won't working...how can i do that

Answer 1

I wasn't able to reproduce the problem with this piece of code on my machine.
If the strings are coming from the database, is probable that there is a charset problem on it, don't forget to use:
$dbh = new PDO("mysql:$connstr", $user, $password);
$dbh->exec("set names utf8");
when connecting to the database.
It should solve your problem.