[Image-SIG] Putting a unicode string on an ImageDraw canvas

[Fredrik Lundh]

2011/1/10 Thomas Larsen Wessel <mrvelle at gmail.com>:
> Thanks :)
>
> Here is an example that shows how both draw.text and draw.textsize works, as
> long as a unicode-supported font is supplied. It also shows how to get the
> text size directly from the font object.
>
> import ImageFont, Image, ImageDraw
>
> s = u'\u0623\u0636\u0641'
>
> font = ImageFont.truetype('/host/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahoma.ttf', 12,
> encoding='unic')
> print font.getsize(s) # no problem, works fine
>
> im = Image.new('RGB', (200,200))
> draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
> print draw.textsize(s, font=font) #fails

Hmm. That works for me in both 1.1.7 and trunk, and I don't really see
how it can fail for you given that it ends up calling the same method
in both cases:

    def textsize(self, text, font=None):
        if font is None:
            font = self.getfont()
        return font.getsize(text)

What's the exact error?

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