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Hello,

I have this wierd problem..

I have had on my server and on my laptop the IM version 6.4.2 for a while that has been working very good. and I have on the server linux and on the laptop Windows Vista.

Now I decided to upgrade them to the latest version of IM and I got problems..

Started with the laptop and didn´t get any of the newest versions to work, Vista just said it crashed and stopped it from working.. The first older version I got working was 6.5.4-0.
With the server I got the newest version Installed with no problems but when drawing text on pictures it didn´t draw the special characters like "äöå" that I need. So I had to go back to a version of 6.5.0-10 to get the special characters to work.
I now I noticed that the laptop version 6.5.4-0 has the same problem with the special characters..
I have tried different fonts and with no fonts (IM default).
Here is an example convert line.

convert -background transparent -fill black -font Arial -size 400x250 -gravity Center caption:"Meidän name" name.png

This cuts the drawing at Meid.

Thanks.

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#unicode

I have read it a few times and tried with the examples but the result the same.

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 32 label:' é è à ù ç Ö ÿ ‘ ’ “ ” ° ² ³ € x ÷ ' label_i8n.gif

This gives me an empty lightblue gif picture, if I take the space away from before the character é the I just get an empty gif.

And the wierd thing really is that it has worked just fine with older version of IM..

the problem is that you are likely pasting text that is NOT in unicode/utf-8. you need to put the text into a unicode file and then call the file rather than type or paste the character string.

see

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 \
-font ZenKaiUni label:@chinese_words.utf8 label_utf8.gif


from http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#unicode

you must make sure your text editor is capable of utf-8 format and is in the proper mode to save the utf-8 characters without losing the proper format.