Non-ASCII character issue with Kivy

[citt...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm programming a Tibetan language app.

Therefore I would need to display Non-ASCII characters in the App.

When Kivy first encountered the Non-ASCII character in the App, it produced an error:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe0' in file tibetanphonetics.py on line 39, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

I then googled about this Error and found out that I can put the following code on top of my file:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

After putting that code on top of my file, I no longer get the SyntaxError.

However, the character does not get displayed properly as well.

Instead of the character being displayed, I get a rectangle......

Is it impossible to get Kivy to work with Tibetan Characters?

Or is there a way around this?

How should I go about solving this?

Is Kivy the wrong tool for this?

I've attached a print screen image.  You will see rectangles in the image.  Those are the Tibetan characters that are not showing right....

Thank you

[Alexander Taylor]

I think the direct reason is that kivy's default font doesn't have these characters. You should be able to use your own font, as documented at the Label's font_name property (http://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.uix.label.html#kivy.uix.label.Label.font_name). As long as you have a ttf for the font, you can just set that to the right filepath.

[citt...@gmail.com]

Hi

Thank you, this did work for me..