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My imagemagick version on my linux machine

Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-10 Q16 x86_64 2016-05-20 http://www.imagemagick.org
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I want to annotate some text on an image with non english characters. I tried many fonts but couldn't find one which will support all characters. "DejaVu-Sans" seems to be working for arabic characters but not for chinese or thai. Please suggest what font should I use to support all non english characters

I do not think there is one universal language font. But I will defer to others who know otherwise.

Someone please guide here

You need to choose a font for the given language. You should search Google for fonts for the language in question. Not all fonts have proper UTF-8 characters for foreign languages and accent marks.