Celestia: [1.6.2] Solar System Browser planet names are in gibberish

Created on 20 Nov 2020 · 9Comments · Source: CelestiaProject/Celestia

Describe the bug
The names of the planets in the Bulgarian language (I guess the bug will be the same in Russian too) are in gibberish instead of Bulgarian.

To Reproduce

Use the Bulgarian language (as I wrote _I think_ Russian will be affected too).
Open the Solar System Browser.

Expected behavior
The names of the planets should be in their native language.

Screenshots
bug

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Windows 7 SP1 x64
Frontend: Native
Version: 1.6.2 Final

I haven't noticed other other instances of this bug. I believe that this is a Unicode problem.

bug help wanted high priority native win windows

Source

RacerBG

Most helpful comment

@RacerBG @Askaniy please test https://celestia.space/files/celestia/celestia-1.6.2.1.7z

375gnu on 23 Nov 2020

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this is known, fixed in 1.7.0, but the backport https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/pull/784 does not work, and we have no idea why it does not work.

levinli303 on 20 Nov 2020

As #322 states we don't have any windows developer. I'm unabe to reproduce this bug under wine.

375gnu on 20 Nov 2020

As #322 states we don't have any windows developer. I'm unabe to reproduce this bug under wine.

I'm not a developer either but is there any way to help as a Windows user myself?

RacerBG on 20 Nov 2020

it seems we cannot use ListView_InsertColumn and some other methods, since their ANSI version does not support unicode

levinli303 on 20 Nov 2020

@RacerBG @Askaniy please test https://celestia.space/files/celestia/celestia-1.6.2.1.7z

375gnu on 23 Nov 2020

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@375gnu

It fixed the names
It broke sharpness on the system scale not 100%

Askaniy on 24 Nov 2020

It broke sharpness on the system scale not 100%

this fix doesn't contain any font rendering changes. are you sure that it was sharp before?

375gnu on 24 Nov 2020

on my win10 vm with 300% scaling, there was no change with scaling. was blurry, still blurry.

levinli303 on 24 Nov 2020

@375gnu I re-downloaded 1.6.2 and 1.6.2.1, installed them clean. Both are blurred, the update corrects the inscriptions. Apparently the last time 1.6.2 was launched with normal sharpness because of the path known to the system, where I could do some magic.