[Image-SIG] Korean/unicode strings in PIL
Joris Vankerschaver
joris.vankerschaver at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 13:54:05 CET 2010
Dear all,
I would like to use PIL to generate thumbnails with Korean characters.
Unfortunately, the code that I use doesn't produce the correct output.
Here is a small snippet, based on some PIL example code.
code = u'\uAC00'
letter = code.encode('UTF-8')
i = Image.new("RGB", (25,25))
d = ImageDraw.Draw(i)
f = ImageFont.truetype("AppleMyungjo.ttf", 12, encoding = "unic")
d.text((0,0), letter, font = f)
i.save(open("ga.png", "wb"), "PNG")
Here, "AppleMyungjo.ttf" is a font that has some Korean characters in
it. The program doesn't produce any errors, but the output image just
contains garbage pixels (different ones based on the font I pick, but
never the correct ones). I've tried playing with the different options,
but to no avail. To see what the output should look like, simply do
"print u'\uAC00'.encode('UTF-8')".
Does anyone have some sample code to produce
Korean/Japanese/Chinese/random unicode text in images?
I'm afraid this might be a trivial problem, but the obvious google
searches didn't yield anything useful.
Thanks a lot,
Joris Vankerschaver.
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