Encoding issue with Pango on Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04)

[adrienbaron]

Hi,

I'm encountering an issue with character encoding on Ubuntu, both on 14.04 with pango 1.36.3 and on 16.04 with pango 1.38.1.
When generating an image with chinese characters for example I get this:

My development machine is a Mac, on the latest OS X, with the following version of pango:
pango-view (pango) 1.38.1

I generate some JPEG using Google Roboto font, I load the font from a ttf file like this:
var font = new Canvas.Font('Roboto', __dirname + '/fonts-roboto/Roboto-Regular.ttf'); font.addFace(__dirname + '/fonts-roboto/Roboto-Regular.ttf', 'normal');

Everything works perfectly on the Mac, I get the font and all the character encoding works (chinese for example), but on Ubuntu the encoding is broken for Chinese (and other non latin) characters.

Any idea what could be wrong?

[adrienbaron]

Found the solution!
#266

Simply install all these font package on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-uming fonts-ipafont-mincho ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-unfonts-core fonts-takao fonts-dejavu ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Works like a charm 👍