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    <p>I am trying to write some Urdu text on an image using imgttftext() function of PHP. It does not display the characters unless I convert the text using the following code:</p> <pre><code>function convert($text){ $out=""; mb_language('uni'); mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8'); $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'HTML-ENTITIES',"UTF-8"); $text = html_entity_decode($text,ENT_NOQUOTES, "ISO-8859-1"); for($i = 0; $i &lt; strlen($text); $i++) { $letter = $text[$i]; $num = ord($letter); if($num&gt;127) { $out .= "&amp;#$num;"; } else { $out .= $letter; } } return $out; } </code></pre> <p>Now, the text e.g. عچں (which contains the three characters ع چ ں) is printed on to the image as separate and full characters instead of cutting and joining the characters to form an Urdu word like عچں.</p> <p>I have used the characters ا ب ت ث with codes U+0627, U+0628, U+0629 and so on from this page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Arabic" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Arabic</a></p> <p>I have shared the code here: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/urdu-captcha/downloads/list" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/urdu-captcha/downloads/list</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Note: I have added space between the characters in the code provided removing which makes no difference to how the text is displayed on the image.</p> </blockquote> <p>How do I make it write the characters joined together to form proper words?</p>
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    1. COcan you add more of your code, e.g. which font are you using, how large is your image? In which charset is your text when you pass it to the convert function?
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    2. COand: did you check that you don't have a problem as Urdu is rtf? There is an example in the [imgttftext manual](http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.imagettftext.php#97767)
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    3. COI just tried your suggestion for rtf. I am editing the question to add some more code and information.
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