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piersdeseilligny / betterfountain

A screenwriting app integrated into visual studio code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=piersdeseilligny.betterfountain
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Unable to properly format Malayalam language #216

Open Amal717 opened 2 months ago

Amal717 commented 2 months ago

I am not able to convert Malayalam utf-8 encoded language scripts to pdf. The text appears like gibberish

piersdeseilligny commented 1 month ago

Hi, thanks for creating this issue. The problem is actually that pdfkit (the PDF Library BetterFountain uses) does not support fallback fonts. It's an issue that's plagued the library [for the past 10 years][https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit/issues/201], but there's still no real solution to it...

The alternative is to use a font which supports Malayalam characters, which you can do by adding the Font: title page key.