PocketMatrix

Hello,
We are evaluating GD 301 and I've got into some troubles with national (french and czech) characters, perhaps someone will be able to help:

I've made png with ascii characters followed by national ones, I read some posts about unicode here but do not understand how to correctly create font with CreateFont() specialy I do not understand what Johan meant by 'unicode ASCII string' in 'Problem with german special characters' thread.
Does it means that i have to provide characters in UTF8 or in local codepage to CreateFont() ?

Is the font limited to 256 characters?

Does it all means that I have to use UTF8 or local codepage (say win1251) while using DrawText() even its parameter is wide (TCHAR) string?

example:
when i've add czech character 's with caron' (U+0161) at the very end of font and then tried to DrawText() string "a's with caron'" I got two 's with caron's on the screen
from this it seems to me (a reverse guess) that GD internal character table is a char array. so 0x161 (letter 's with caron') is truncated to 0x61 (letter 'a') so whenever i try to draw letter 0x61 or 0x161 it's the same bitmap letter. correct?
What steps should i take to get GD working with unicode strings?

best regards
- Zdenek Nemec - zero(at)mapfactor(dot)com

Hi,
I hope this will help you,
I already asked about font creating and how to use CreateFont.
Please check a previous thread with the subject "Font size" to see how I solved my problem.
But I must admit that I didn't try to add foreign characters...
Regards.
Vincent.