Skip to content

Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs - Ä䯿ÖöØøÅåÜüßàé #28

Open

Description

@kaj-se

Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs

The font is missing the entire Latin-1 subset. It would be nice if we could add the Scandinavian and German glyphs for the beginning.

Ää Ææ Öö Øø Åå Üü ß à é

Context

When you type these letters in the game by pasting them (typing doesn't work), the game switches to a non-monospaced font. As far as I can tell, it's “Arail.” This shifts the line height to an unexpected height, which ruins the entire chat and shell area.

Example of the Issue

I have marked the critical areas in the screenshot.

ingame_screenshot

Example of what they could look like

Image

Activity

  1. added
    needs triageThis is a new issue that needs to be reviewed.
    on Feb 8, 2026
  2. hmdunce commented on Feb 8, 2026

    @hmdunce
    Contributor

    Thanks ❤️ 👍

    I am very interested in the "typing doesn't work" issue... but that is out of scope here I guess, maybe more appropriate for a "discussion"... I am equipped to debug this issue on Linux at least.

  3. seanmakesgames commented on Feb 8, 2026

    @seanmakesgames
    Member

    Yeah the typing them out might be something we have to fix in the client.

  4. hmdunce commented on Feb 8, 2026

    @hmdunce
    Contributor

    After some testing on Linux, I am cautiously optimistic that typing Swedish/German will just work, if we add the new chars in a certain list in the client.

    Should we now go to a draft PR to set up the glyphs and do testing? Or do more testing/design work here first?

    For testing I am thinking of loading the glyphs in-game and taking screenshots of some Swedish/German texts at different gui.sizes.

  5. seanmakesgames commented on Feb 8, 2026

    @seanmakesgames
    Member

    Nope. We've got screenshots of the issue, well defined issue, and I've prioritized the issue as 'normal' priority. The scope in the issue is clear. Y'all are good to go for proposing a fix.

    Once we have the changes ready, we'll document how we go about making sure that we didn't break anything in the client with the font changes. and probably document how to properly update the font in the client repo as we work through that PR.

  6. hmdunce commented on Feb 8, 2026

    @hmdunce
    Contributor

    Ok @kaj-se can you fork and make a PR? Feel free to ask questions here... I have a merge_glyphs.py script somewhere that might be useful, and I can provide github/git help too.

    I would make a PR myself but I need cla-assistant to ask you to sign the CLA, since the font contributions will be yours. 😄

    It doesn't have to be perfect yet, just testable and submitted by you.

  7. kaj-se commented on Feb 9, 2026

    @kaj-se
    ContributorAuthor

    Okej, I'll create a Fork and contribute it.

  8. kaj-se commented on Feb 9, 2026

    @kaj-se
    ContributorAuthor

    PR is out -> #30

  9. changed the title [-]Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs - Ää Ææ Öö Øø Åå Üü ß[/-] [+]Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs - Ää Ææ Öö Øø Åå Üü ß à é[/+] on Feb 18, 2026
  10. changed the title [-]Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs - Ää Ææ Öö Øø Åå Üü ß à é[/-] [+]Missing Scandinavian and German glyphs - Ä䯿ÖöØøÅåÜüßàé[/+] on Feb 18, 2026
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions