Donn wrote:
> 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:
> 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?
a glitch, at least. the _imagingft driver appears to use Python's
default encoding, rather than the filename encoding.
should be relatively easy to fix, I think, but in the meantime, you'll
have to work around this by making a temporary copy of the file with a
made-up name if this happens:
try:
font = ImageFont.truetype(filename, ...)
altname = None
except UnicodeEncodeError:
# create a suitable alternative name (e.g. using the tempfile
# module)
altname = ...
shutil.copy(filename, altname) # could use linking on Unix
font = ImageFont.truetype(altname, ...)
... use the font object ...
if altname:
os.remove(altname)
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