From 71267fb332989953c8b27ec9a31832767886c926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kurt Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 10:06:44 -0400 Subject: Add note about CJK fonts --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 84e7a1b..2d5d14e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ support for text, drawing and images. gofpdf has no dependencies other than the Go standard library. All tests pass on Linux, Mac and Windows platforms. -gofpdf supports UTF-8 fonts and “right-to-left” languages. +gofpdf supports UTF-8 TrueType fonts and “right-to-left” languages. Note +that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters may not be included in +many general purpose fonts. For these languages, a specialized font (for +example, +[NotoSansSC](https://github.com/jsntn/webfonts/blob/master/NotoSansSC-Regular.ttf) +for simplified Chinese) can be used. Also, support is provided to automatically translate UTF-8 runes to code page encodings for languages that have fewer than 256 glyphs. -- cgit v1.2.1-24-ge1ad