Locale or Language problem in Linux

[queenmedley]

Steam's working on Archlinux.
When start it, there is no menu button to start... even '[]', completly no letter.
So change steam interface langange from Korean to English, then I can see menu and start game.
But when tried portal game language to korean, still can;t see korean menu and subtitel.. only show English. not chanage game language.
It seems that locale setting on linux is not related, but steam interface language setting is.
I saw other screen caputer in korean languge in windows.
Steam portal don;t support other language on Linux??
It is annoying when play portal, change steam language setting every time....

[chriskringel]

This seems to be an error about the old libfontconfig library in Steam Runtime. The following link provides a workaround/fix. Korean for Steam and the menu in Portal itself should be fine then. Also install all dejavu font packages and ms core fonts ("mscorefonts" "mstt core fonts"). But my best guess is the following:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/225420/discussions/0/43099721790628013/

1.) Make sure to install libfontconfig:i386
2.)
rm $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1

ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1

3.)
rm $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1

4.) Re-start Steam!


More:
Also try setting in Steam properties tab for the game the launch option LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 %command%
And leave STEAM_RUNTIME=1 or maybe try adding STEAM_RUNTIME=0 however the game might not start at all then or even steam itself not anymore.

[queenmedley]

New link libfontconfig.so.1 is solution. I can see Korean . Thank you.
In addition, I also need to change fonts.conf.

My fonts.conf(sans) was set like that... and still did not show any character in portal.
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<edit name="family" binding="strong">
<string>Dejavu Sans</string> <---- non korean font
<string>NanumGothic</string> <--- korean font
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nimbus Sans L font need to connect to other font which korean support.
I don't know why..... hmm may portal use Nimbus san font??
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<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>Nimbus Sans L</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same"><string>NanumGothic</string></edit>
</match>
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