[dcphp-dev] Re: PHP GD output

PHP has a long history of thinking a byte is the same as a character, and a bias toward ISO-8859-1 characters.  Obviously this bias has led to numerous UTF-8 character set collisions since UTF-8 characters are multibyte in the area where ISO-8859-1 has single-byte Western European accented characters.  I have never investigated character sets with the GD library, but I'll do that and see what I find.  The little black diamond question marks are a fairly common browser rendering for incorrectly encoded characters.  This article may be helpful.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_11880-Unicode-PHP-and-Character-Collisions.html

If I can recreate the failure, I'll show you my failing code and what might be done to fix it.

On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 3:03:48 AM UTC-5, Scott Castillo wrote:

I am creating an image in the middle of a process.  The process uses the imagestring() function a lot.  Although everything works, I am getting junk output prior to redirecting back to the page to pick up the image.  The process works but I would like the junk output not to appear in the interim.  The output has symbols such as the following:  F�q ����<� "p� Կ�.

Would like to suppress the noted symbols.

Any help would be appreciated.

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