Drawing multilingual text using PIL

Question

I\'m having trouble drawing multilingual text using PIL. Let\'s say I want to draw text - \"ひらがな - Hiragana, 히라가나\". But PIL\'s ImageDraw.text() function takes only one font

Answer 1

You just need to pick a Unicode font. Example:

import Image
import ImageFont, ImageDraw
image=Image.new("RGB",[320,320])
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
a=u"ひらがな - Hiragana, 히라가나"
font=ImageFont.truetype("/Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf",14)
draw.text((50, 50), a, font=font)
image.save("a.png")