Displaying proper malayalam text on PDF using Go lang gopdf

[jaytxrx]

I am trying to generate a PDF document with Malayalam text.

The issue is that the malayalam text is not displayed properly.

Good Text

Obtained Text from gopdf

Does anyone know what the issue is ?

The font used is https://smc.org.in/downloads/fonts/meera/Meera-Regular.ttf

Below is the code used

package main
import (
    "log"
    "github.com/signintech/gopdf"
)

func main() {

    pdf := gopdf.GoPdf{}
    pdf.Start(gopdf.Config{ PageSize: *gopdf.PageSizeA4 })  
    pdf.AddPage()
    err := pdf.AddTTFFont("Meera-Regular", "Meera-Regular.ttf")
    if err != nil {
        log.Print(err.Error())
        return
    }

    err = pdf.SetFont("Meera-Regular", "", 14)
    if err != nil {
        log.Print(err.Error())
        return
    }
    pdf.Cell(nil, "അതിവേഗ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് നിഘണ്ടു ")
    pdf.WritePdf("hello.pdf")

}

[jaytxrx]

Attaching the generated file

hello.pdf

[oneplus1000]

Maybe it was an issue like https://github.com/signintech/gopdf/issues/50 , you have to change unicode of string before write out because gopdf will print unicode directly.

[jaytxrx]

@oneplus1000 can you make it clear what exactly needs to be changed? I saw the issue that you mentioned but didn't get much clue.