Kivy tutorial: support Chinese in Kivy to build cross platform applications (tutorial includes source code)

This tutorial discusses Kivy Chinese is supported in , In order to use Chinese 、 Japanese and Korean UI Display text on widget .

Introduce

Kivy Is a used in Python Library for building cross platform applications in . Use the same Python file , You can create Windows、Linux、Mac、Android and iOS Applications .

By default ,Kivy Support this link https://github.com/kivy/kivy/tree/master/kivy/data/fonts Various fonts available in the project . The currently supported fonts are Roboto and DejaVu Sans. Many countries use Chinese in their official languages .

Display Chinese on the label widget

next Python The code creates a Kivy Applications , There is only one window Label The widget , Display Chinese text

import kivy.app
import kivy.uix.label

class TestApp(kivy.app.App):
    def build(self):
        return kivy.uix.label.Label(text=" I love tian 'anmen square in Beijing ")

testApp = TestApp()
testApp.run()

The result of running this application is shown in the following figure , The text is displayed incorrectly . It means Kivy Unable to understand these characters . Of course , The problem is that it is used in Label The font of the text displayed on the widget .

The good news is Kivy Allow to use our own fonts in UI Display text on widget . If the default Kivy Font does not support Chinese ,