Rubidium wrote:

Let me first explain what OpenTTD exactly does.
Upon loading a translation it determines whether it has characters not covered by the default font. If this is the case it asks the operating system for an appropriate font. In your case OpenTTD's default font does not have Chinese characters and it asks Windows for a font to load.

Then OpenTTD tries to load the font the operating system, i.e. Windows, told it to use. In this case for some reasons the font Windows told OpenTTD to use cannot be loaded, which makes OpenTTD fall back on the default font that does not support Chinese characters.

We have tested this system in a Chinese, Japanese and Korean Windows XP where it worked. I would not know why it does not work in Windows 7.

You can tell OpenTTD to use another font by setting it using the "small_font", "medium_font" and "large_font" settings in openttd.cfg (see readme.txt where that file is).

Is there anything special about your Windows installation that you know about?

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Rubidium closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Fixed

In r19753, or at least OpenTTD now tests whether the font can be loaded before returning it as a suitable font.

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