That's done in Freetype.  First thing I would try would be upgrading to
GD2/Freetype2 and see if it is handled better with that combination.

-Rasmus

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ziying Sherwin wrote:

>
> We installed php 4.2.2 with freetype 1.3.1 on our solaris 2.8 machine.  We
> are using function imagettftext to convert UTF8 string to image file for
> Internet display. However, it seems that this function does not handle the
> combining characters properly.  For instance, the sequence of unicode
> characters U+0061(a) and U+0308 (combining diacritics) is display as two
> characters: a and a square indicating not displayable. The correct result should
> be a character identical to U+00E4.
>
> We are wondering where the normalization is handled in this case, freetype
> library or inside imagettftext php function? Is it a bug in freetype library?
> If not, how can we fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ziying Sherwin
>
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