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Special Character in CFImage text

Hi all,

I'm trying to render some text (£10.00) to an image using cfimage. However I can't get the £ character to render correctly, I just get Â£10.00 (see attached image).

I'm using the following code to generate the image. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

<cfset voucherValue = "£10.00">

<!--- Create new blank image --->
<cfset newCodeImage = ImageNew("", 450, 140, "rgb", "##FFFFFF") />

<!--- Set new text attributes. --->
<cfset attr = StructNew()>
<cfset attr.font="Arial">
<cfset attr.style="bold">
<cfset attr.size=110>
<cfset ImageSetDrawingColor(newCodeImage,"##000000")>
<cfset ImageSetAntialiasing(newCodeImage)>

<!--- Add value to blank image --->
<cfset ImageDrawText(newCodeImage,"#voucherValue#",0,115,attr)>

<!--- Save temp image --->
<cfimage action="writeToBrowser" source="#newCodeImage#">

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_agx_

Try using the unicode representation of £
<cfset vourcherValue = "\U00A310.00">

_agx_

ie "\U00A3" instead of "£"
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a3/index.htm

richard-mckenna

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Unfortunatly not that just renders

\U00A310.00

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_agx_

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richard-mckenna

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Ah 9,0,0,251028 let me try updating CF. Good thinking there :)

_agx_

Try adding a UTF8 directive explicitly first. Might be the problem.

<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8">

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richard-mckenna

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Solved thanks guys, youve been a great help.

cfprocessingdirective didn't do anything.

After the 9.0.1 update <cfset voucherValue = "£10.00"> renders correctly.

<cfset vourcherValue = chr(163) & "10.00"> works as well (note the number is 163) and I think I'm gonna go with this as it seems a bit more complete.

Thanks again.

_agx_

cfprocessingdirective didn't do anything
Not sure why. A literal copy and pasted worked perfectly for me. But if the ascii code works, then it's definitely an encoding problem.

richard-mckenna

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Yeah, they also must have changed the encoding in the 9.0.1 update. Think I'll have a look at the release notes when i get chance, see if I can find anything.

_agx_

Hmm.. I just tested it again and it's not UTF8 that worked. It was windows-1252

<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding="windows-1252">
<cfset voucherValue = "£10.00">