Lars Yencken wrote:

I'm trying to render a Japanese font to an image, but I'm having some problems.

Converting the font from ttf to pil via ttf2bdf and pilfont.py works
fine. When I try out the rendering code however, none of the Japanese
characters appear, only the normal ascii ones do.

Here's the offending code:

   font = ImageFont.load('kochi-mincho.pil')
   image = Image.new('RGB', (512,512), color=color__white)
   draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
   desiredText = unicode('nothing ææè appears', 'utf8').encode('euc_jp')
   draw.text((10,10), desiredText, font=font, fill=color__black)
   image.save('example.jpg')

Notice that the actual japanese characters are originally in unicode
and then encoded to euc_jp. I tried leaving them in unicode (which
broke it), and selecting other possible encodings (like shift_jis or
utf8) but these still only rendered the ascii, i.e. the above renders
to "nothingappears".

can you make the BDF file available somewhere? (either post it somewhere and mail me the URL, or, if it's not too large, mail the file to me).

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