no one answered php imagettftext issue about unicode rendering

Question

I am having a html form text input and php script to convert that sinhala language text to an image file using imagettftext(). but some characters are not rendered properly..
I have used the very same unicode font...

this is my php script;

imagefttext($im, 11, 0, 5, 5, $black, 'iskolapotha.ttf', $POST['testinginput']);

please see this link to see the issue

can anyone help me. .! thanks in advance ! :)

Answer 1

GD does not support Complex Text Rendering (for Arabic, Indic etc). If you need this, you will have to use a separate library, such as Pango (example).