unicode characters with PerlMagick

[guba]

Hello,

I want to write unicode characters with the Annotate method
in ImageMagick/PerlMagick (Ubuntu)

$image->Annotate(font => $font_name,
text => $text,
pointsize => ...,
gravity => ...,
fill => ...);

How can I put a character code like U+0E84 in the variable $text
so that it is recognized and what font should I install/specify?
Thank you very much!!

guba

 

[RedGrittyBrick]

Hello,

I want to write unicode characters with the Annotate method
in ImageMagick/PerlMagick (Ubuntu)

$image->Annotate(font => $font_name,
text => $text,
pointsize => ...,
gravity => ...,
fill => ...);

How can I put a character code like U+0E84 in the variable $text

$text = "...\x{0E84}...";

See perldoc perlunicode

so that it is recognized

I'd check the docs for PerlMagick for Unicode support. I suspect it will
just work.

and what font should I install/specify?

Any font that contains the Lao characters you want to include.
I'd Google for "Lao Font". YMMV.

 

[Torben]

How can I put a character code like U+0E84 in the variable $text
so that it is recognized and what font should I install/specify?
Thank you very much!!

As someone else pointed out, it just plain works..

Either use
$t = "\x{0E84}";
or just put the text directly in the quote, if your file is stored in UTF-8
format.

I have just completed a project where I did BMPs with hindi text.
This is what I had to do:

* use utf-8 in Perl
* store the perl source file as UTF-8
* I took the strings to annotate from a different file. This file was also
stored as UTF-8

It was not necessary to specify encode=>'UTF-8' in $image->Annotate

The nice thing about Perl is that UniCode and utf8 just works.

 

[Torben]

Hmmmmmm. You clearly haven't been following the interminable 'Unicode is
irrepairably broken, whatever are we to do??' threads on p5p...

No, honestly, I did not see that. Perhaps you could enlighten me with a
link ? Yes, I did Google for it.