How to specify localized forms of CJK scripts in ImageFont?

[SunHaozhe]

CJK scripts (CJK Unified Ideographs) share the same Unicode code points, the distinction between simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Kanji can only be handled by the font.

Some fonts support several forms (simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Kanji, etc.) at the same time. Some people suggest that this can be specified using locl, some others suggest that this should be specified using langsys. Anyway, my objective is to specify the form of CJK scripts with PIL's ImageFont or the FreeTypeFont object.

How can I specify the form to use when working with PIL package? Is this specification even possible with PIL version 8.0.1?

image_font = ImageFont.truetype(font="Arial Unicode.ttf", size=10) # PIL.ImageFont.FreeTypeFont object

I asked this question first on Stack Overflow, but it seems that this is something I should ask on your issue tracker. This feature can be useful for a lot of people.

[nulano]

I think this can be done using the language parameter added in #3693.

See documentation here (scroll down to the language parameter, I can't link to the parameter directly): https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/ImageDraw.html#PIL.ImageDraw.ImageDraw.text

[SunHaozhe]

Thanks a lot! This resolved the problem.