Rubidium wrote:

OpenTTD ask the operating system, in case of Linux that'll be fontconfig, for the best font for the loaded language if the current font (by default a sprite font) does not contain the glyphs needed for the chosen language.

In this case the issue is either that you've compiled OpenTTD with fontconfig support, or that fontconfig returns an unreadable font to you. The troubleshooting section of the readme has some information on how to set the font manually.

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morse wrote:

For some reason the screenshot I attached to the bug isn't there.

The problem is that the font is too small and in italic. Together with absence of antialiasing it gives a totally unreadable captions.

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thror wrote:

I had a similar problem when I changed OpenTTD locale to Chinese on Arch Linux, as the system language is English I didn't have a proper Chinese font installed I solved it by installing some extra fonts

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planetmaker wrote:

You can always manually select a specific font and a font size in the openttd.cfg

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morse wrote:

I just noticed that I also can choose the font size in the separate line. And whether to use AA. But AA doesn't work for some reason...

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Rubidium wrote:

Antialiasing requires you to enable a 32 bpp blitter as antialiasing with 8 bits indexed colours doesn't quite work.

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Rubidium closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't fix

We won't be providing a font that works for all languages. The issue and solution is now documented in both readme.txt and known-bugs.txt which should be enough for anybody to find.

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