PLEASE HELP UNICODE WATERMARKING IN CODEIGNITER

[eluser]Ckirk[/eluser]
I think it may be that the GD library used by the codeigniter image_lib doesn't handle certain UTF-8 charcters such as those used in your string.

The following function may be the answer to the problem in that you can prep the text before applying it to wm_text:

Code:

private function prepareText($text){
    $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8");
    $text = preg_replace('~^(&([a-zA-Z0-9]);)~',htmlentities('${1}'),$text);
    return($text);
}

Hope that helps