Add Arabic Support to Avatar Generator

app/handlers/images.go

@@ -34,25 +34,32 @@ func LetterAvatar() web.HandlerFunc {
 		// URL decode the name
 		decodedName, err := url.QueryUnescape(name)
 		if err != nil {
+			log.Error(c, err)
 			return c.Failure(err)
 		}
 
 		size, err := c.QueryParamAsInt("size")
 		if err != nil {
+			log.Error(c, err)
 			return c.BadRequest(web.Map{})
 		}
 		size = between(size, 50, 200)
 
-		img, err := letteravatar.Draw(size, letteravatar.Extract(decodedName), &letteravatar.Options{
+		extractedLetter := letteravatar.Extract(decodedName)
+		log.Debugf(c, "Generating letter avatar for name '%s', extracted letter: '%s'", decodedName, extractedLetter)
+
+		img, err := letteravatar.Draw(size, extractedLetter, &letteravatar.Options{
 			PaletteKey: fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", id, decodedName),
 		})
 		if err != nil {
+			log.Error(c, err)
 			return c.Failure(err)
 		}
 
 		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
 		err = png.Encode(buf, img)
 		if err != nil {
+			log.Error(c, err)
 			return c.Failure(err)
 		}
 

app/pkg/letteravatar/letteravatar.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package letteravatar
 
 import (
-	"embed"
 	"image"
 	"image/color"
 	"image/draw"
@@ -12,11 +11,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/golang/freetype"
 	"github.com/golang/freetype/truetype"
 	"golang.org/x/image/font"
+	"golang.org/x/image/font/gofont/goregular"
 )
 
-//go:embed fonts
-var fonts embed.FS
-
 // Options contains the options for letter avatar generation
 type Options struct {
 	PaletteKey string
@@ -53,13 +50,8 @@ func Draw(size int, text string, opts *Options) (image.Image, error) {
 	// Draw the background
 	draw.Draw(img, img.Bounds(), &image.Uniform{bg}, image.Point{}, draw.Src)
 
-	// Load the font
-	fontBytes, err := fonts.ReadFile("fonts/IBMPlexSansArabic-Regular.ttf")
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	f, err := truetype.Parse(fontBytes)
+	// Use the built-in Go font for now
+	f, err := truetype.Parse(goregular.TTF)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}