How can i add bengali font in a django web application

Question

I want to create a quiz web application using django where the quiz question will be in Bengali. How can i generate the bengali font in my desired site. Please if anyone tell me .. i will be grateful to him

Answer 1

Django is not involved in font rendering on the browser. Embedding a particular font via CSS is still problematical until today. You may find answers at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220236/how-to-embed-fonts-in-html.

In Django, you specify only the character codes. You may have to use unicode escape sequences in strings, unless you can enter Bengali characters directly. Bengali characters reside in the unicode range U+0981 to U+09FA. I assume that your target audience will have glyphs installed for those characters, so there may be no need to provide an embedded font at all.

You can use the following script to display a list of the defined Bengali unicode characters.

import sys
import unicodedata as ucd

try:
    chr = unichr
except NameError:
    # Python 3
    unicode = str

def filter_bengali():
    for i in range(256, sys.maxunicode + 1):
        try:
            name = ucd.name(chr(i))
            if 'BENGALI' in name:
                print(unicode('U+{0:04X} {1:<60} {2}').format(i, name, chr(i)))
        except ValueError:
            pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    filter_bengali()