Watermarks (image_lib) for non-latin or special characters

[eluser]popovich[/eluser]
Quick update.
Initially, I was using an OpenType font (UniversStd.otf), which was rendering the em dash as a crossed square. After trying the omnipresent Arial in TrueType format (arial.ttf) and adding

Code:

html_entity_decode($text);

the latin texts seems to render fine now, displaying special characters, umlauts and accents. Cool.

The only thing left — the cyrillics...

ps. Does it happen only to me, that after posting to a forum, the solution crystallizes itself in the air before anyone has replied yet?