title: ReportLab: Arabic characters are displayed as black squares.
body: <p>I try for weeks to create pdf reports in Arabic, but I failed.
  I use ReportLab with two packages for building the Arabic characters namely bidi.algorithm and arabic_reshaper. 
  In the console the characters are well organized but in the pdf there are only black square.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import reshaper
  from bidi.algorithm import get_display
  heading = get_display(reshaper.reshape(unicode('العربية', encoding='utf-8')))
  print heading
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output in console : العربية</p>
  
  <p>But in the generated pdf file : ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance.</p>