Imagemagick annotate with Unicode characters

Question

How can I draw Unicode characters in Imagemagick using -annotate ?

My spurce file is UTF-8

This is my code:

"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q8\magick.exe" convert -size 800x200 xc:black -font Times -fill #808080 -gravity Center -pointsize 64 -annotate +0+0 "ABCDEF - Ê" text.png

What I get is this image

Answer 1

You face a mojibake case (example in Python for its universal intelligibility):

print( 'ABCDEF - Ê'.encode( 'utf-8').decode( 'cp850'))

ABCDEF - Ê

In terms of Windows command line: suppose that the following 76126154.bat batch script contains the only command line @echo ABCDEF - Ê and is saved as UTF-8 (without Byte order mark).

Run the script using UTF-8 as active console Code Page. Otherwise, you see mojibake as follows:

chcp
:: Active code page: 850

76126154.bat
:: ABCDEF - Ê

chcp 65001
:: Active code page: 65001

76126154.bat
:: ABCDEF - Ê