Created attachment 537162 [details] Screenshot Description of problem: Ugly Russian fonts by default in openttd (see screenshot). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openttd 1.1.3-1.fc16 openttd-opengfx 0.3.7-1.fc16 How reproducible: Anytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. run LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 openttd 2. 3. Actual results: Ugly fonts, not playable Expected results: Normal fonts Additional info: This bug also present in Fedora 15. This is not a critical error, but it is very unpleasant. I've try to set google-droid fonts in settings-file, but they also look terrible.
Thanks for taking the time to post this bugreport. I reproduced the problem on my machine and I'll be checking with upstream what we can do about it :) I hope that you can enjoy the game in English until we get this fixed.
Ok. Thanks a lot, including for the quick response.
So this bug seems to be related to the font choosing algorithm. If OpenTTD can't find a font in it's sprite (which is the case for most non-latin fonts) it'll ask fontconfig to provide it with a font that can display the required glyphs. For some reason the font returned by fontconfig is obviously not very optimal. Talking with upstream they acknowledged that there is the possibility of fontconfig not choosing the optimal fonts but that this is something that is easily fixed. There is a chance that they will look into it at some point. For now I have the following workaround which produced better looking fonts for me (not that I could read cyrillic, but it looked better ;)) Open the OpenTTD config file (~/.openttd/openttd.cfg) in an editor and edit the lines where it says: small_font = medium_font = large_font = to say small_font = DejaVu Sans, bold medium_font = DejaVu Sans, bold large_font = DejaVu Sans, bold (I see you tried this with the Droid fonts, but maybe DejaVu has better results) Also see this OpenTTD bugreport: http://bugs.openttd.org/task/4607 I hope this helps.
I meant to say that this is something that is NOT easily fixed :) Obviously a typo in my last message.
Yes, Felix. I've changed the three lines in the configuration file as you say. And the font looks nice. I understand that fixed can not do easily. But with such a good workaround we'll be wait. Thank you very much.
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Bug is still persist in Fedora 18 openttd-1.2.3-1.fc18.x86_64
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This bug is reproduced in Fedora 20 too. openttd-1.3.2-2.fc20
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