non-ascii charater image gereration with PIL

[Daewon YOON]

Hi. I'm a newbie to this python world.

PIL has 'text(position, string, options)' method in its ImageDraw module.
Does this work with unicode or other 2byte encoded string?
It seems not working on my python2.3.5 with PIL 1.1.5.

How can I accomplish this task? Specifically I'm trying to generate
Hangeul characters (Korean characters) images from txts encoded
either in euc-kr, cp949, or unicode with TTF files.

 

[Damjan]

PIL has 'text(position, string, options)' method in its ImageDraw module.

Does this work with unicode or other 2byte encoded string?
It seems not working on my python2.3.5 with PIL 1.1.5.

Yes, just tried and it works (python-2.4/PIL 1.1.5), but you also need a
font that supports your characters, see this script:

text = unicode('some cyrillic text: здраво', 'utf-8')
from PIL import ImageFont, ImageDraw, Image
image = Image.new('RGB',(400,300))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
font = ImageFont.truetype(".fonts/dejavu-ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf", 12)
draw.text((10, 10), text, font=font)
image.save('wow.jpg')