Nano Pi, no non-ASCII characters on OLED display

Bakebit OLED display was originally included in Friendly ARM Linux distro for NANO Pi. That is distro of Ubuntu/Debian 14.04 without X related functionality because this board does not contain GPU.
I try to print on display non-ASCII characters, included in TTF fonts provided by Bakebit. Based on included samples I wrote such code in Python2.7:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-  # Added for UTF-8 support
#
import bakebit_128_64_oled as oled
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import ImageDraw
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import sys
import subprocess
import threading
import os
import socket
reload(sys)  # Added for UTF-8 support
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')  # Added for UTF-8 support

global width
width=128
global height
height=64

# Reset OLED display
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(37, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
GPIO.setup(24, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(24, True) 
time.sleep(0.1)
GPIO.output(24, False) 
time.sleep(0.1)
GPIO.output(24, True) 
time.sleep(0.2)
#
# End RESET display
#
oled.init()  #initialze SEEED OLED display
oled.setNormalDisplay()      #Set display to normal mode (i.e non-inverse mode)
oled.setHorizontalMode()

global image
image = Image.new('1', (width, height))
global draw
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
global fontb24
fontb24 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 24);
global font14 
font14 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono.ttf', 14);
global smartFont
smartFont = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 10);
global fontb14
fontb14 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 14);
global font11
font11 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono.ttf', 11);

draw.rectangle((0,0,width,height), outline=0, fill=0)
oled.drawImage(image)
draw.text((10, 0), "START SYSTEMU", font=fontb14, fill=255)
draw.text((23, 18), "AUTOMATYKI", font=fontb14, fill=255)
draw.text((0, 40), "SKRZYPOWA", font=fontb24, fill=255)
oled.drawImage(image)
time.sleep(5)
draw.rectangle((0,0,width,height), outline=0, fill=0)
oled.drawImage(image)

This code works OK. But if I change any letter to other, included in DejaVuSansMono but non-ASCII, random characters are display. If I print to console instead OLED, all characters are presented correctly. What I should change to get it working with full DejaVuSansMono character set?
Note, that I added all necessary commands to get python 2.7 working with UTF-8.

I think you're on a loser there.

TTF fonts are X fonts; If you don't have X, you're on keyboard fonts which are in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts, and are psf.gz & psfu.gz There's a selection of stuff there in /usr/share/kbd/ and it may be possible to cobble together a unicode font, & keymap to suit you, but it would be system wide, unless you set it up otherwise. I've just done it in X to get some maths stuff like ≤≥÷ºπ≠±Δ going on an X keyboard.

I'd look for a unicode mapping of character to code, and you can fairly quickly hack something up.

But I think that OLED library import from TTF font file necessary font shape and change it to pixels:

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-  # Added for UTF-8 support
#
import bakebit_128_64_oled as oled
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFont

And next:

global fontb24
fontb24 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 24);
global font14 
font14 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono.ttf', 14);
global smartFont
smartFont = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 10);
global fontb14
fontb14 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 14);
global font11
font11 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono.ttf', 11);

It works for me OK on OLED with ASCII characters. The problem I have, how to pass UTF-8 encoded symbols to for example:

draw.text((10, 0), "START SYSTEMU", font=fontb14, fill=255)

All in python 2.7 of course.

Maybe, but all these things feed into a GPU, which you apparently haven't got…

Without a gpu, I would need a much better understanding of your hardware and display before I could say if what you want is even possible. TTF offers scalable fonts giving varying sized characters. Simpler displays are inclined to have a maximum character size and a number of lines defined. You're more or less stuck with the font sizes they include. Have fun, and I wish you luck.

I think I'm beginning to understand the question.
Have a look here, the first askubuntu looks like it has good answers for you.

It is not GPU absence or UBUNTU related problem. Its related to python 2.7 I think. If I login to RPi over SSH and print text containing my language specific characters to console instead OLED display, all characters are printed correctly (using python 2.7 code). Of course it is possible to enter such characters from CLI (via SSH console), according to LOCALE. So keyboard mapping works OK.
OLED 0,96 inch display is connected to RPi over I2C interface. Such display has very limited resolution x=64, y=128 pixels.
To print anything on OLED, it is necessary import such library:

import bakebit_128_64_oled as oled

https://github.com/friendlyarm/BakeBit

And there is a command in this library which converts any TTF scalable fonts to bit-mapped form in any size. For example library call:

fontb14 = ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf', 14);

convert TTF to bitmap/pixel form, 14 pixels size in height, necessary - in fact - to draw a picture not characters . So letters are - in fact - part of bitmap picture.
Another library call is:

draw.text((10, 0), "START SYSTEMU", font=fontb14, fill=255)

Stands for: draw bit mapped letters "START SYSTEMU" starting form pixels x=10 y=0, using TTF, bit mapped converted fonts 14 pixels height.
I think now its more clear.