Map marker list font & character support

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This is a minor issue, but it would be nice if the map marker font supported more languages and characters. (default client) (also I think the font is pretty don't listen to the haters)

I know the game is in English but there are a lot of place-names created by players that use other character sets, so it would be nice to be able to mark them accurately.

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[MagicManICT]

Game supports UNICODE, though I'm not sure what year/version it uses. It might have more to do with your operating system's language support.

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The (unicode?) non-English characters are displaying fine for me in other places in-game (like in the text entry box in the screenshot there, but also on gravestones and entering/exiting villages). I assumed the non-English character aren't being displayed specifically in the map marker list because the chosen font only has a limited selection of unicode characters.

[MagicManICT]

Thanks for the follow-up. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't a localized issue due to operating system settings or such.

edit: second thought occurs to me in that it may be the font itself, as not all fonts support the UNICODE format properly, at least not the extended characters.

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Yeah, was thinking it was that particular font used in that particular place, since the characters display fine in other places in-game that don't use that font.

[Granger]

(also I think the font is pretty don't listen to the haters)

The haters don't complain about the font being ugly but the low readability (to put it nicely). There are reasons to dislike overly seriffed fonts (especially when used for screen display), most of 'the haters' didn't ask to discard it for everyone but just to have the option to choose a font which works better for them (most, if not all, custom clients implement this in one way or another).