Generate character images with a font whose name cannot be correctly decoded

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Generate character images with a font whose name cannot be correctly decoded

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Track title: Lost Meadow

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Chapters
00:00 Question
06:39 Accepted answer (Score 7)
12:17 Answer 2 (Score 4)
13:03 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1688...

Question links:
[seal script]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script
[Jin_Wen_Da_Zhuan_Ti.7z]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1335...
[Zhong_Guo_Long_Jin_Shi_Zhuan.7z]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1335...
[Zhong_Yan_Yuan_Jin_Wen.7z]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1335...
[FontForge]: http://fontforge.org/

Accepted answer links:
[FreeType encoding strings]: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/r...
[TrueType]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
[Big5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big5
[font_render()]: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow...
[FT_Get_Char_Index()]: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/r...
[font_getchar()]: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow...
[FT_Select_Charmap()]: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/r...

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Tags
#python #characterencoding #truetype #pycairo #pillow

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