Working with GD ( imagettftext() ) and UTF-8 characters

Question

Just for the record - my first question here but hopefully not my last input in the community. But that\'s not why I\'m here.

I\'m currently developing a simple syst

Answer 1

In first place make sure your IDE is not saving file in another encoding than UTF8. For example new Intellij IDEA 9 changed UTF-8 to WINDOWS-1250 on Windows platform. If you won't notice that and you will use constant strings for testing, it is pretty crazy to debug.