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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

IIRC PIL requires UTF-8 encoded text. There's probably some double encoding going on somewhere.

Actually I tried it out with my patch. And it appears that PIL happily accepted the Unicode text and generated a proper image. Moreover, doing the utf-8 encoding as the current code does gives the wrong result. I think it is Qt that requires utf-8, not PIL.
The PIL documentation contains an example where Unicode text is given to draw:

 
font = ImageFont.truetype("symbol.ttf", 16, encoding="symb")     
draw.text((0, 0), unichr(0xF000 + 0xAA))

I think it should have an additional parameter font=font

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There's probably some double encoding going on somewhere. Try this instead:

text = title.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(title, unicode) else title

And also use

u'La Raz\xc3\xb3n' instead of u'La Razón'

That seems very wrong to me (forcing a double encoding yourself).