Does it support unicode?

[yzldw333]

I use it to make pictures of Chinese words, but it since that doesn't support.

[jiong3]

Rendering Chinese characters shouldn't be a problem, what exactly doesn't work?

[HinTak]

You need the latest code ( #52 ) if you are using python 2.x, instead of 3.x . One of the most recent changes a few days ago fixes encoding issue for python 2.x .

[HinTak]

Here is example 1 quickly adapted to do Chinese. As I expected, just using a chinese-capable font and a chinese phrase would do, so the change is only two lines:

@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ def main():
     matrix  = FT_Matrix()
     face    = FT_Face()
     pen     = FT_Vector()
-    filename= 'Vera.ttf'
-    text    = 'Hello World !'
+    filename= 'DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf'
+    text    = '你好嗎!'
     num_chars = len(text)

OTOH, as I mentioned above, python 2.x does strings and unicodes somewhat differently; so this change for example 1 only works on python 3.x. My fix ( #52 ) only fixes unicode processing for the emoji example. TODO.

[HinTak]

I tested both of these answers for python2, and both work. You can either put this line near the top:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

which enables python 2.x to process strings python 3.x style, or add a decode('utf8') manually like this:

@@ -45,8 +46,9 @@ def main():
     matrix  = FT_Matrix()
     face    = FT_Face()
     pen     = FT_Vector()
-    filename= 'Vera.ttf'
-    text    = 'Hello World !'
+    filename= 'DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf'
+    text    = '你好嗎!'
+    text = text.decode('utf8')
     num_chars = len(text)

Both of these work, you only need one of them. The first one is probably easiest.