Team Fortress 2 almost no text visible

[猫株利]

Game is unplayable (see screenshot here: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198042592522/screenshot/594788129926927003 or http://i.imgur.com/oOwTYsZ.jpg )

Steps to reproduce:

1) Install XUbuntu amd64 13.04 or 14.04 with Japanese as language
2) Install Steam, Team Fortress 2
3) Select any language, English, Japanese, Russian
4) Have no fun :(

[猫株利]

Installing Microsoft TTF fonts does nothing also.

[R3450N]

Why not install Xubuntu 14.04 with English as language?

[猫株利]

Because my language isn't the problem.

[Kranky K. Krackpot]

Do you have Arial Unicode MS installed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial_Unicode_MS
It's not included in corefonts package, you have to get it somewhere.
Also from Arch wiki

Steam makes heavy usage of the Arial font. A decent Arial font to use is ttf-liberation or the fonts provided by Steam. Asian languages require wqy-zenhei to display properly.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam
BTW, i have somehow similar issue with i915 driver.

[slrp]

Postat inițial de 猫株利:

Because my language isn't the problem.

I think TF2 sets the menu font to the language the steam client was running, because I just went to test this so I set TF2 to Japanese in properties and it still came up with all english text.
I had to set the steam client itself to run in Japanese before it would change the menu language in TF2.

So perhaps your steam client isn't in english and it doesn't matter that you have TF2 set to english it's still trying to display the language that your steam client is set to.

But this should solve your problem

Postat inițial de Kranky K. Krackpot, Sr.:

Also from Arch wiki

Asian languages require wqy-zenhei to display properly.

I uninstalled wqy-zenhei and I could reproduce your screenshot (with steam client set to japanese)
But reinstalling wqy-zenhei then running fc-cache -fv and starting TF2 allows the text to render
http://s2.postimg.org/dmd1iwnfd/275.png

[猫株利]

Installing wqy-zenhei from a package fixed the problem. This is a good workaround, but I think Steam should properly support a Japanese font for Japanese language. I will mention this on the github. Thanks!