Japanese characters do not appear in demo game

[Matthew]

The demo game includes vehicles with Japanese characters. I guess they are kanji.

But they do not appear on my system (Ubuntu, no Japanese IME):



I guess that I need to install a BDF font for Simutrans-Extended? Do you know a good BDF font with Japanese characters, please?

[Phystam]

You can use Unicode fonts installed in your computer, instead of the simutrans standard BDF fonts.
Or use unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont/ that supports almost all Unicode glyphs.

[Roboron]

You can use Unicode .ttf fonts installed on your system if you have compiled Simutrans Extended with FreeType. Take in mind, that if you compile Simutrans-Extended using cmake, that this option is off by default (I don't know why).

[Andarix]

wenquanyi_9pt.bdf ~3,3 MByte

[Matthew]

You can use Unicode fonts installed in your computer, instead of the simutrans standard BDF fonts.
Or use unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont/ that supports almost all Unicode glyphs.

You can use Unicode .ttf fonts installed on your system if you have compiled Simutrans Extended with FreeType. Take in mind, that if you compile Simutrans-Extended using cmake, that this option is off by default (I don't know why).

Thank you; I didn't realize that OTF/TTF fonts were now usable in Extended. Simutrans finds fonts in ~./fonts but not /usr/share/fonts (where Ubuntu installs system fonts). I can use symlinks to get around this though.

I will now be able to play historical games with historical fonts!

wenquanyi_9pt.bdf ~3,3 MByte

Thank you! This actually looks much better than OTF/TTF fonts for CJK text. It seems bitmap fonts still have a niche.