#34670 [NEW]: imageTTFText for Indian scripts (Devanagari)

[klaus at glashoff dot net]

From:             klaus at glashoff dot net
Operating system: Windows XP
PHP version:      5.0.5
PHP Bug Type:     *Graphics related
Bug description:  imageTTFText for Indian scripts (Devanagari)

Description:
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The results of imagettftext() are - at least for Indian languages - not
totally satisfying:  Consonant conjuncts appear as two consonants with
virama.  In order to display "kta" in Devanagari, imagettftext, for
example,  when given the argument " k + virama + t"
(क्त) should return the conjunct for "kt", but it does
not.

(Instead of the font Sanskrit2003.ttf, use any Unicode font containing
U+0900 - U+097F; for example mangal.ttf).



Reproduce code:
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<?php
Header ("Content-type: image/png");
$string ="&#2325;&#2381;&#2340;";
$string=rawurldecode($string);
$im =  imagecreate (200, 25);
$white = ImageColorAllocate ($im,224,224,224);
$black = ImageColorAllocate ($im,50,100,100);

ImageTTFText ($im, 12, 0, 5, 15, $black, "Sanskrit2003.ttf", $string);
ImagePng ($im);
ImageDestroy ($im);
?>

Expected result:
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The Devanagari conjunct glyph for "kt" should appear, not a separate "k"
with virama sign &#2381.


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