Wrong Encoding or Font for Non-latin Characters when Generated Social Feature Images

[mxhassani]

Impacted plugin

Social

Quick summary

The Social Image Generator doesn't show non-Latin characters correctly in the generated images:

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a post
2. Add a non-Latin text to the title, try: शुभ प्रभात
3. Go to Jetpack > Social Image Generator > Enable Social Image
4. Notice that the overlay text is just squares or lines

Site owner impact

Between 20% and 60% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Minor

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No response

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

The severity is reduced, and the workaround is just not to use the feature.
This said, we do have this open Bug which may still affect the experience: #38975

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Atomic

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OpenAI suggested the following labels for this issue:

• [Feature Group] User Interaction & Engagement: The issue affects how users perceive and experience shared social images, which is relevant to user engagement.
• [Feature] Social Media Integration: This is related to the Social plugin and specifically impacts how social media features display content.
• [Feature] Images: The issue is directly related to the rendering of images generated by the Social Image Generator.

[mxhassani]

9684609-zd-a8c

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