> I don't know, but may be PIL needs to have the Byte Order Mark for handling > unicode. Not 100% sure what you are saying.
That character is ( I don't know if it will travel ) "å" and I can open files that contain it with my other python stuff like codes.open etc. Are you suggesting a solution to me or thinking aloud :) I'm on Kubuntu Gnu/Linux 7.10 with Python 2.5 \d > Hello, > Trying to open a ttf file with a non-standard character in it (u'\xe5') > causes an error, no matter what I pass to encoding: > > enc="unic" > enc="unicode" > enc="utf8" > etc. > font = ImageFont.truetype( paf, 64, index=i , encoding=enc ) > > The error: > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 205, in > truetype > return FreeTypeFont(filename, size, index, encoding) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 121, in > __init__ > self.font = _imagingft.getfont(file, size, index, encoding) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in > position > 66: ordinal not in range(128) > > > Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is this a bug? > > \d _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
