Bug in rendering Indic fonts #1089
Description
ImageFont, ImageDraw do not render complex scripts with ligatures correctly. (On Ubuntu 14.04, Python 3.4.0)
This is how it looks in editor gedit:
This is how Pillow does it.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#-*- coding:utf8 -*-
from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
im = Image.new("RGB",(160, 160))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
font_telugu = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core/Pothana2000.ttf",50)
text_telugu = "నిత్య"
font_hindi = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core/gargi.ttf",50)
text_hindi = "नित्य"
draw.text((10, 10), text_telugu, font=font_telugu)
draw.text((10, 90), text_hindi, font=font_hindi)
im.show()