Something

	$query = "SELECT * FROM userdata WHERE username = CONVERT( _utf8 '$per' USING latin1 )              COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci LIMIT 0 , 1";  
        $result = mysql_query($query); 
           while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
               { 
			     $user=$r['username'];
				 $cb=$r['combat'];
				 $overall=$r['overall'];
				 $rank=$r['rank'];
				 $xp=$r['xp'];
                 $att=$r['attack']; 
				 $def=$r['defence'];
                 $str=$r['strength'];
				 $hp=$r['hp'];
				 $ranged=$r['ranged'];
				 $prayer=$r['prayer'];
				 $mage=$r['magic'];
				 $cook=$r['cooking'];
				 $wc=$r['woodcutting'];	
				 $fletch=$r['fletching'];
				 $fish=$r['fishing'];
				 $fm=$r['firemaking'];
				 $craft=$r['crafting'];
				 $smith=$r['smithing'];
				 $mine=$r['mining'];
				 $herb=$r['herblore'];
				 $agility=$r['agility'];
				 $thief=$r['theiving'];
				 $slay=$r['slayer'];
				 $farm=$r['farming'];
				 $rc=$r['runecraft'];
				 $hunt=$r['hunter'];
				 $construction=$r['construction'];		 
               }              
			  
                 $nav = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
                  $script = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
                  $nav = ereg_replace("^$script", "", $nav);
                  $nav = str_replace("%20"," ",$nav);
                  $vars = explode("/", $nav);
                  $per = substr($vars[2],0,strpos($vars[2],"."));
                  $backg = strtolower($vars[1]);
                  $per = ucfirst(strtolower($per));
				  
				  $font="./bg/lilith.TTF";
				  $imgfile = "./bg/".$backg.".png";
                  $im_size = getimagesize($imgfile);
                  $image_width = $im_size[0];
                  $image_height = $im_size[1];
                 $im = imagecreatetruecolor($image_width, $image_height);
                 $color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
                 $color2 = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
                 $im2 = imagecreatefrompng($imgfile);
                 imagecopy($im, $im2, 0, 0, 0, 0, $image_width, $image_height);
                 imagedestroy($im2);
				 
		 
				 imagettftext($im, 16, 0, 190, 25, $color, $font, $per);
				 imagettftext($im, 16, 0, 140, 25, $color, $font, $att);
				 
				 
                   header("Content-type: image/png");
                   imagepng($im);
                   imagedestroy($im);