I have made some research into the files got from SVN.

It seems that the problems reported in my message ("Re: Imager and UNICODE characters",Wed Oct 25 15:05:11 2006) was caused by a erroneous affectation of a data into the file win32.c.

Win32.c:

I changed the line 76 like this : work_len = length;

Is it correct ?

I have some doubts because the tests report some anomalies:

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t00basic........ok
t01introvert....ok
t020masked......ok
t021sixteen.....ok
t022double......ok
t023palette.....ok
t05error........ok
t07iolayer......ok
t1000files......ok
t101jpeg........ok
82/86 skipped: no jpeg support
t102png.........ok
27/32 skipped: no png support
t103raw.........ok
t104ppm.........ok
t105gif.........ok
121/125 skipped: no gif support
t106tiff........ok
123/127 skipped: no tiff support
t107bmp.........ok
t108tga.........ok
t15color........ok
1/47 skipped: no X rgb.txt found
t16matrix.......ok
t20fill.........ok
t21draw.........ok
t30t1font.......ok
76/77 skipped: t1lib unavailable or disabled
t35ttfont.......ok
71/72 skipped: freetype 1.x unavailable or disabled
t36oofont.......ok
18/20 skipped: various reasons
t37w32font......ok 2/38# Looks like you planned 38 tests but ran 1 extra.
t37w32font......dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 39
Failed 1/38 tests, 97.37% okay (less 11 skipped tests: 26 okay, 68.42%)
t38ft2font......ok
164/165 skipped: no freetype2 library found
t40scale........ok
3/223 skipped: optional module Image::Math::Constrain not installed
t50basicoo......ok
t55trans........ok
4/5 skipped: # warning transform: expr given and Affix::Infix2Postfix is
not avaliable.
t56postfix......ok
t57infix........ok
t58trans2.......ok
t59assem........ok
t61filters......ok
t64copyflip.....ok
t65crop.........ok
t66paste........ok
t67convert......ok
t68map..........ok
t69rubthru......ok
t70newgif.......ok
t75polyaa.......ok
t80texttools....ok
9/11 skipped: Need Freetype 1.x or 2.x to test
t81hlines.......ok
t82inline.......skipped
all skipped: Inline required for testing API
t90cc...........ok
t91pod..........skipped
all skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t92samples......ok
t93podcover.....skipped
all skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.08 required for POD coverage
t94kwalitee.....ok
tr18561.........ok
tr18561b........ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
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t37w32font.t 1 256 38 1 2.63% 39
3 tests and 710 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/52 test scripts, 98.08% okay. -1/2456 subtests failed, 100.04% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Erreur 14

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and, when i use this text : "Hello \x{263A}!", with the windows font "Arial", there is not the same same space between the bottom of the 'smiley' and the bottom of the picture ( 2 pixels) than when i use this text "Hello Box ! pour le 'fun'" (3 pixels between the bottom of the 'P' and the bottom of the picture.

My program creates an image which should have the height and the length of the text more 3 pixels.

best Regards