How to use special characters in PHP "S#?!☠✖"

Asked Sep 03 '14 at 12:16

Active Sep 14 '14 at 09:24

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I have this UTF-8 text

"S#?!☠✖"

I would like to use it in PHP for placing the text in an image.

ImageTTFText ($bild, $fontsize, $fontangle, $xcord, $ycord, $text_color, $font, $text);

It works well, but for the last two sign I will get an ??. I tried to convert it with:

$newstring = utf8_decode("S#?!☠✖");

without any success.

Is there any solution to convert the signs that they are usable in php?

edited Sep 14 '14 at 09:24

asked Sep 03 '14 at 12:16

hamburger

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Probably the gliffs are missing in the font you are using – Steve Sep 03 '14 at 12:17
What do you want to do with that signs? Maybe using "FontAwesome" will do the trick. – Rafael Morais dos Santos Sep 03 '14 at 12:20
I changed the font to standart arial.ttf. Do not work. – hamburger Sep 03 '14 at 12:23
the sign is given in the font. I think it has something to do with that the font will UTF-8 – hamburger Sep 03 '14 at 12:25
@Steve It’s [glyphs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph). – Gumbo Sep 14 '14 at 09:37

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