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Hey guys,

I have an image with some text. Some text needs to be in another language.
I have this in the code that creates the image
I can see this perfectly in vim, but when the image is created I just see "???".
Do I have to turn something on?

I am using ImageMagick 6.5.4-7 2014-02-10 Q16 OpenMP on centos

Thanks

It may be a bug in your old version of IM, which is ancient at about 350 versions old. It could also be that you are not really pasting in the correct unicode characters. Try putting the text in to a file that supports unicode. Then use

draw "text 10,-20 '@filename'"

see if that works. But be sure your test editor is unicode compliant.

CORRECTION: I misread your draw command. The text 10,-20 was part of the text you wanted to print. So it must be in the text file. So the command is simply

-draw "@filename"

where filename is a text file that contains all the text you want to show.

Hey.

I updated my imagemagik version, it is now 6.8.9-0 Q16 x86_64

I tried doing what you said:
I just the @koreantext printed in the image.
If I just do with the text I still get ???

Is there any other way?

When using the "@" format, I believe the file has to contain everything that would go between the outer quotes. See my page http://im.snibgo.com/snutf8.htm

I am now using this command:
And in the koreantext file I have this:

text 15,24 '사이츠'

I can see this in the command line (if I cat the file) and I can see this in vim but when this gets to the image I still see ???

What else can I do? Do I have to resort to using images for these symbols???

What font are you using? Have you checked that the font contains those characters?

Yes, this was the problem.
I had to use the Nanum Gothic font to get the symbol.

Thanks