[Image-SIG] TrueType font encoding (re-post)

[Laszlo Nagy]

This is a re-post. I did this re-post because nobody knew the answer to 
my original one, which was about a month ago. In the worst case I'm 
going to give up working with PIL and migrate to something that does not 
have this bug and will not post again. I hope you forgive me.

Example program "test.py" is attached .

The font (cartoon.ttf) and output of the program (test.png) is attached. 
Also "with_gimp.png" is attached that shows the same thing created in 
Gimp with the same ttf file. The obvious problem is that PIL puts "u" 
instead of "ü".

Fredrik Lundh told me that PIL and Gimp are using the same engine for 
rendering fonts, so probably the problem is not with font rendering, and 
of course not with the ttf file. He also told me that the encoding 
parameter of ImageFont.truetype is ignored unless it is exactly four 
characters.

Does anybody know how to solve the problem?

Thanks,

   Laszlo

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