Accented characters not showing when using imagettftext with otf but showing with ttf

Question

I'm using imagettftext to generate images from OpenType files. Everything works until I try to use an accented character (e.g. å) or a character such as √. In their place I get the .notdef glyph.

The fonts I'm using definitely have these characters. To make things even more frustrating, when I use a TTF everything works as expected.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

Sorry to tell you, but PHP OTF supports only standard Ascii characters. It's a well known fact that special characters in OTF only very rarely work. I'm afraid you will have to stick with TTF until they correct that.