require("gd")

-- -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

-- UTF-8 encoded unicode text. You must use an UTF-8 compatible text editor
-- to change this and a compatible Unicode font (FreeSerif is a good one).
--
-- WARNING: Windows Notepad will add some prefixes, making this file an
-- invalid Lua script.

local text = [[
( ? Lua-GD
) Unicode/UTF-8
???????
????????
????????
????????
????????
]]

--local fontname = "FreeSerif"    -- Common on Unix systems
 local fontname = "VeraMono" -- Common on Windows systems

gd.useFontConfig(true)

im = gd.createTrueColor(180, 180)
white = im:colorAllocate(255, 255, 255)
black = im:colorAllocate(0, 0, 0)
x, y = im:sizeXY()
im:filledRectangle(0, 0, x, y, white)
im:stringFT(black, fontname, 16, 0, 10, 30, text)

im:png("./output/utf-8.png")