Use unicode characters

Hi, i'd like to use unicode characters like 𝔴 for example.
Here is my script :

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
width = 1500
height = 400
image = Image.new("RGB", (width, height), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
text = "✿.ꀘ𝔦𝔴𝔦𝔦.✿ ★ ❀ 𝒜𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 ❀ ⚜N€ZUK0⚜ 月が綺麗です ❤️💍🔐 ahio :)"

try:
    font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", size=40)
except IOError:
    print("Font not found. Using default font.")
    font = ImageFont.load_default()
left, top, right, bottom = draw.textbbox((0, 0), text, font=font)
text_width = right - left
text_height = bottom - top
position = ((width - text_width) // 2, (height - text_height) // 2)
draw.text(position, text, fill="black", font=font)
file_name = "image_with_text.png"
image.save(file_name)

print(f"The image has been saved as '{file_name}'.")

here is the result :

for the "classic" emojis, I can use pillmoji, but it doesn't work for the other characters.
I've tried with multiple fonts, and it still don't work

How can I ensure proper rendering of both emojis and decorative Unicode characters with Pillmoji? Is there a workaround or a specific font recommendation?

I don't think there is a specific font recommendation, no. https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji advertises itself as

an open source font that has you covered for all your emoji needs, including support for the latest Unicode emoji specification. It has multiple weights and features thousands of emoji.

but I don't know what your evaluation would be.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fonts/comments/1ghenf6/does_anyone_know_of_a_monospace_unicode_font_with/ states

Typically emoji fonts just contain emoji. The ones that do contain both characters pretty much never have them at the same width because it would look like either the latin was too spaced out, or the emoji was too close together. Your best bet is to do it via styling if you can, or to take an emoji font and add the latin characters to it and make the spacing equal in something like Font Forge.

And indeed, you might be interested in the discussion at #4808 or the #6926 PR, where people are trying to solve the problem of a single font being insufficient by contemplating using multiple fonts at once.

Hi,

an open source font that has you covered for all your emoji needs, including support for the latest Unicode emoji specification. It has multiple weights and features thousands of emoji.

yep, that is

And indeed, you might be interested in the discussion at #4808 or the #6926 PR, where people are trying to solve the problem of a single font being insufficient by contemplating using multiple fonts at once.

the first one didn't helped me, I'll see #6926 in some hours

How can I ensure proper rendering of both emojis and decorative Unicode characters with Pillmoji?

Wouldn't this be a question for https://github.com/jay3332/pilmoji, rather than for us?

How can I ensure proper rendering of both emojis and decorative Unicode characters with Pillmoji?

Wouldn't this be a question for https://github.com/jay3332/pilmoji, rather than for us?

sorry, I wanted to say "How can I ensure proper rendering of both emojis and decorative Unicode characters with Pillow?"

the first one didn't helped me, I'll see #6926 in some hours

well, can't test it, https://github.com/nulano/Pillow/actions/runs/5568846705 do a 404

Ok, I found three fonts that together have all the characters, and put together the following code.

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
width = 1500
height = 400
image = Image.new("RGB", (width, height), "white")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
text = "✿.ꀘ𝔦𝔴𝔦𝔦.✿ ★ ❀ 𝒜𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 ❀ ⚜N€ZUK0⚜ 月が綺麗です ❤️💍🔐 ahio :)"

fonts = []

def single_character_bytes(font, character):
    im = Image.new("RGB", (40, 40))
    im_draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
    im_draw.text((0, 0), character, "white", font)
    return im.tobytes()

for path in (
    "./NotoSansJP-Regular.otf",
    "./NuosuSIL-Regular.ttf",
    "./Symbola.ttf",
):
    font = ImageFont.truetype(path, size=40)
    missing_characters = [single_character_bytes(font, character) for character in ("\u25a1", "\ufffd")]
    fonts.append([font, missing_characters])

parts = []
for character in text:
    for font, missing_characters in fonts:
        if single_character_bytes(font, character) in missing_characters:
            continue
        
        bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), character, font=font)
        parts.append([font, character, bbox])
        break

text_width = 0
text_height = 0
for part in parts:
    left, top, right, bottom = part[2]
    text_width += right - left
    text_height = max(text_height, bottom - top)

x = (width - text_width) // 2
for part in parts:
    font, character, bbox = part
    left, top, right, bottom = bbox
    position = (x, (height - text_height) // 2)
    x += right - left
    draw.text(position, character, fill="black", font=font)
file_name = "image_with_text.png"
image.save(file_name)

print(f"The image has been saved as '{file_name}'.")

@Grise3

@Grise3 was that helpful?

@Grise3 was that helpful?

Sorry, I couldn't answer because I was busy. I just tested it and yes, it's helpful, thanks!
It work fine

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