A little problem with cyrilic

[PlumeOfACat]

Hey!

I'm learning russian on my own and decided to put a russian follower in my skerim SE to practice little by little, but the cyrilic letters appears as squares, so I can't read them...

Does anyone know how to allows other alphabets in Skyrim SE?

[Misuune]

You'll probably need to change language in Steam used by game to Russian. So it'll download the files necessary to support the letters.

Then you can try the gamble whether going back to English will result in the issue still persisting or being solved assuming the Russian files wont get deleted after switching back to English.

[PlumeOfACat]

Thanks! ^^ I'll try that!

[StreamWhenGuy]

You'd need fontconfig_ru.txt with a set of supported symbols for cyrillic to show properly instead of default English fonconfig.txt. Probably the game being in Russian on Steam, too, but not necessarily. Requires fiddling around with the INI files. Also plugged in supported cyrillic fonts. Just try what Ralof has suggested for now. Should work actually.

[PlumeOfACat]

Originally posted by StreamWhenGuy:

You'd need fontconfig_ru.txt with a set of supported symbols for cyrillic to show properly instead of default English fonconfig.txt. Probably the game being in Russian on Steam, too, but not necessarily. Requires fiddling around with the INI files. Also plugged in supported cyrillic fonts. Just try what Ralof has suggested for now. Should work actually.

Ralof's idea didn't work, so I want to try your idea... do you know where I have to put that file in the local files?

[focus]

According to the steam help, changing the language via global settings or by changing game settings should be effective. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4984-C127-121D-B3F2

However, you said that you're using a mod. If changing the language and verifying the files (please do this first) didn't give you Cyrillic lettering, then I would recommend downloading the language pack for your operating system. If that still doesn't work, then try contacting the modder to ask where he's pulling the lettering from, or the help forums for the mod website.

[StreamWhenGuy]

Originally posted by PlumeOfACat:

Ralof's idea didn't work, so I want to try your idea... do you know where I have to put that file in the local files?

That's weird. When switching on Steam, the game should download some files for the game to support Russian.
I'm not sure, but I think your game actually needs to be in Russian to support cyrillic symbols since it's either fontconfig_ru.txt or fonconfig.txt (English) that the game pulls out required settings and sets of symbols from to display.
Try the following: open your working Skyrim.ini, if you're a Mod Organizer user, it's within the profiles folder and make sure that these lines are like this:
[General]
sLanguage=RUSSIAN
[Fonts]
sFontConfigFile=Interface\FontConfig_ru.txt

Then you'll probably need custom cyrillic fonts and properly adjusted fonconfig_ru.txt. Check out this one just for testing, not the best cyrillic font out there though. Install it just like you'd normally do: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28918

[StreamWhenGuy]

I can fully guide you through the process on how to make the game to have English voices and Russian subtitles with custom readable fonts, but what you're asking for might probably require some additional dancing around INI files and installing various font mods and whatnot.

Another thing just came to my mind. If you're using any custom font mod that supports cyrrilic symbols by default, such as Sovngarde if I'm not mistaken, you could just try to add cyrrilic set of symbols to its fonconfig.txt file without doing all of that that was previously mentioned. But if font containers do not support cyrillic symbols, it won't work.
Open fonconfig.txt, scroll to the bottom of the file and copy-paste this line overwriting the existing one, just as it is, with quotes and everything:

validNameChars "`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*():_+QWERTYUIOP[]ASDFGHJKL;'ZXCVBNM,./qwertyuiop{}\asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm<>?|ЎўЈ¤Ґ¦§Ё©Є«®Ї°Ііґ¶·ё№є»јЅѕїДАБВГЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯабвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэю я абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ"

Save the file.

[PlumeOfACat]

I can't find the fonconfig.txt file in my game's local files. though, I just found the fontconfig_ru.txt while my game is in french, I can't find the fonconfig you talk about... can help me?

[Misuune]

The fontconfig.txt file is located in Skyrim - Interface.bsa in Skyrim's Data folder.
However there's also a fontconfig_ru.txt as well on English version so no language switches should be needed, how about adding this line into your Skyrim.ini file instead:

[Fonts]
sFontConfigFile=Interface\FontConfig_ru.txt

[PlumeOfACat]

Originally posted by Ralof:

The fontconfig.txt file is located in Skyrim - Interface.bsa in Skyrim's Data folder.
However there's also a fontconfig_ru.txt as well on English version so no language switches should be needed, how about adding this line into your Skyrim.ini file instead:

[Fonts]
sFontConfigFile=Interface\FontConfig_ru.txt

OMG! that worked! Thank you!!!

[StreamWhenGuy]

:O