#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Reportlab Chinese hello-world."""
from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.cidfonts import UnicodeCIDFont


def main():
    font = 'STSong-Light'       # works, simplified Chinese
    # Produces broken PDFs: font = 'MSung-Light'
    # Documented but not present: font = 'MHei-Medium'
    #font = 'HeiseiMin-W3'      # works, Japanese, doesn't cover 妈
    #font = 'HeiseiKakuGo-W5'   # works, Japanese, doesn't cover 妈
    # Documented but not present: font = 'HYSMyeongJoStd-Medium'
    # Doesn't cover 你, leaves a blank space: font = 'HYGothic-Medium'
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(UnicodeCIDFont(font))
    c = Canvas('hellochinese.pdf', invariant=True, pagesize=(72*2, 72))
    c.setFont(font, 36)
    c.drawString(36, 24, '你好')
    c.save()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()