Unable to draw compound character of a kannada lang over an image.

Hello all,

I am unable to draw kannada compound characters ಕ್ಕಾ ,   ಪೈ, ವೋ etc


over an image using ImageDraw module's draw method. Below is my code,

 #-*- coding:utf8 -*-
import sys, codecs, string
import Image
import ImageDraw
import ImageFont

txt = 'ಕ್ಕಾ '
font = ImageFont.truetype('Malige-n.ttf',20)
im = Image.new("RGBA",(800,600),(100,155,100))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.text( (0,100), unicode(txt, 'UTF-8'), font=font2)
del draw
im.save('font.png', "PNG")
im.show()


And attached output image file displays 'ಕ್ಕಾ'  by splitting it, but what i
want is to display ಕ್ಕಾ  as it is.
Please suggest me where i went wrong.


Thanks & Regards
Shilpa

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