Chinese text will not display in Portal 2.

[Kakurady]

When Portal 2 is set to display in Chinese, no Chinese text is actually rendered. That includes text in the menu and closed captions. The developer console displays "m_face->glyph->bitmap.width is 0 for ch:36827 Nimbus Sans L". English characters still render.

Happens to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Thai. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

To reproduce: Right-click Portal 2 in the Steam library, select Properties, select the Language tab, select Simplified Chinese. Start Portal 2.

Expected results: Chinese text are readable.

Actual results: Chinese text is not displayed.

[ItsMeOnly]

Do you have Asian TTF fonts installed? Your URW Nimbus Sans doesn't seem to have any Chinese glyphs compiled in, maybe it's a substitute font.

[Kakurady]

Yes, I have fonts-droid and fonts-wqy-microhei installed; but Portal 2 is not using them.

[ItsMeOnly]

Maybe that's the problem: set up a font substitution, because it looks for "Nimbus Sans"

[CaulyKan]

create a file at ~/.fonts.conf should work:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family" qual="any" >
      <string>Nimbus Sans L</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
      <string>WenQuanYi Micro Hei</string>
    </edit>
  </match>

</fontconfig>

[mousemuffins]

How do I create a file at ~/.fonts.conf ? I am having this same issue and have not found a solution either. Where is the ~ ?

[jedenastka]

~ is your home folder.