First - a short description of a problem. I write a JavaScript function to put some text label\'s in SVG canvas. Here it is:
It's really easy: just put the actual Unicode characters you want into your document, save the document as UTF-8, and specify that the document is using the UTF-8 character set.
Here's a live example on my website showing that you can use these characters:
Note that I've saved this file with a UTF-8 encoding and notice that the top of the file has:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
On the off chance that my site is down, here's the content of the example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Θαρσανδαλα</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body { background:#eee; margin:0 }
svg { display:block; border:1px solid #ccc; margin:2em auto;
width:300px; height:200px; background:#fff }
svg text { text-anchor:middle }
</style>
</head><body>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" baseProfile="full"
viewBox="-150 -100 300 200">
<text>Inline: Θαρσανδαλα</text>
</svg>
<script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[
var svg = document.getElementsByTagName('svg')[0];
createOn(svg,'text',{y:20,"font-size":"17px"},"Generated: Θαρσανδαλα");
function createOn(root,name,attrs,text){
var doc=root.ownerDocument, svg=root;
while (svg.tagName!='svg') svg=svg.parentNode;
var svgNS = svg.getAttribute('xmlns');
var el = doc.createElementNS(svgNS,name);
for (var attr in attrs){
if (attrs.hasOwnProperty(attr)){
var parts = attr.split(':');
if (parts[1]) el.setAttributeNS(
svg.getAttribute('xmlns:'+parts[0]), parts[1], attrs[attr]
);
else el.setAttributeNS(null,attr,attrs[attr]);
}
}
if (text) el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
return root.appendChild(el);
}
]]></script>
</body></html>
Replace
set_label (10,50,'QamÚraj')
with
set_lavel(10, 50, "Qam\u00DAraj");
"\u00DA" is four hex digits for Codepoint 218.
Similarly, your other label would be
set_label (10,50,'\u0398\u03b1\u03c1\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1')
If you want to find the hex for a Greek character, you can go to http://www.squarefree.com/shell/shell.html and type something like
var hex = "Α".charCodeAt(0).toString(16);
[, "\\x0", "\\x", "\\u0", "\\u"][hex.length] + hex;
which for "Α"
produces
\u0391