How to display text encoded with utf-8

[dave berk]

I'm trying to display some non-english text within the opengl window. I pre'd the text with u, but it doesn't seem to help. All I get is question marks. What should I do to display utf-8 encoded text? is it even supported?

Regards
Dave

[Nathan]

Did you load a font that supports unicode? (I don't know anything
about the internals of pyglet.font, but that seems like a good place
to start)

~ Nathan

[Thomas Woelz]

Dave,
It is supported. Did you set the encoding in the beginning of your
script? If not try adding something like:
# -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-

Examples:
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
or
# -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-

Thomas Woelz

[Richard Jones]

pyglet's text rendering will accept a unicode string for rendering just fine.
In some instances your selected font may not support certain glyphs so you'll
see a placeholder glyph instead.

Try this:

import pyglet
t = pyglet.text.Label(u'\u20ac')
w = pyglet.window.Window()
@w.event
def on_draw():
t.draw()
pyglet.app.run()

It should render a Euro symbol in the bottom-left of the window.

Richard

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, dave berk wrote:
> > I'm trying to display some non-english text within the opengl window. I
> > pre'd the text with u, but it doesn't seem to help. All I get is question
> > marks. What should I do to display utf-8 encoded text? is it even
> > supported?
>
> pyglet's text rendering will accept a unicode string for rendering just
> fine.

ps. if you don't know about unicode and utf8 or other text encoding then I
suggest you read something like:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode
http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_Unicode

Richard

[dave berk]

Thanks, everyone. As you surmised correctly I forgot to add the encoding at the beginning of the file. Now, though I have another problem. I am trying to render some text in hebrew (a right to left language). Unfortunately, the text appear reversed on the screen. Is there some way to tell pyglet I'm trying to display a right to left language?

Regards
Dave

[Alex Holkner]

Sorry, there's no bidi (bidirectional text) support in pyglet...
you're the first person who's asked for it. If this is an important
issue for you I'd like to work with you to get support in for pyglet
1.2 later this year (I don't read or write any right-to-left
languages, so I need someone to check correctness).

Alex.

[dave berk]

I'd help you in any way I can.

Regards
Dave