Andrew Murray

Hi. Do you have raqm installed? ```pycon >>> from PIL import features >>> features.check("raqm") True ```

Complex text rendering. It is "[recommended for all non-English text](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/ImageFont.html)". See https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/6018#issuecomment-1030893495 for an instance where using Raqm has solved Tamil rendering in the past. How did you install Pillow?...

What operating system are you using? Could you uninstall Pillow, and then run `pip install -v Pillow` and show us the output?

Have you attempted placing fribidi in the correct location? Here is fribidi.dll from our recent Pillow 11.0.0 release for various architectures - [fribidi.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/17441205/fribidi.zip) https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation/building-from-source.html > On Windows this requires compiling...

Hmm. I would have expected the correct output from matplotlib once you had done that. If matplotlib is still not working as you expect, does the following Pillow-only code work?...

Ok, so we are agreed that Pillow by itself is behaving correctly. Can I ask - what led you to the conclusion that incorrect matplotlib output was caused by Pillow?...

Could you 1. `pip install mplcairo` 2. Add the following to the beginning of your Python script? ```python import matplotlib matplotlib.use("module://mplcairo.tk") # Once your code is working, this can be...

mplcairo README says > the directory containing libraqm.dll and libfribidi-0.dll need to be added to the [DLL search path](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.add_dll_directory) I can tell you that on my macOS machine, the result...

Hi. A few questions. 1) Is this something that only started happening recently? For example, was this perhaps triggered by the release of Pillow 12? 2) You mention that you...

Thanks very much. Please provide a link to the gitlab.archlinux.org issue when you have created it.