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JoccE

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 9

[SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

I have been googling and searching to fix this for 3 days now and no progress.

The problem i am having is.

I play CS GO (Native Linux Client) and i cant chat or have a name that contains special letters like "ÅÄÖ"

See screen shots:
They work perfectly in game text like this:
http://i.imgur.com/4eDjCE4.jpg

But when i am ingame it looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/exwkdbk.jpg

as you can see my name which is Fågeln is just F and sometimes i get 20+ weird squares after the name.
This also makes it so i cant chat in Swedish, not in game or the Steam HUD (Works perfectly in the Steam client when not ingame)

What i have tried:
Reinstalled CS GO
Reinstalled Steam
Installed all the fonts that could be the issue.
Changed X11 Keyboard layout and VC Keymap.
Tried custom fonts in CS GO.
Installed Steam-fonts from AUR
Downloaded all the CS fonts and added them manually.
Change the xorg config to set it as SV (Swedish)
Tried setting the Game language to Swedish.
rebooted PC

This happens with more then just Swedish letters, any time there is a "Special Character" as a first character the players Name just go blank, as you can see in screenshot 2.

Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong?

EDIT:
It works in other steam games...

Last edited by JoccE (2016-03-28 11:03:28)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

Moving to "Multimedia and Games".

snooga

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

Hi i had the same problem for some times... Fix was to install the other language fonts for taiwan etc..
Not sure witch package i installed. but i think is was: ttf-symbola ttf-vlgothic ttf-indic-otf. but maybe i installed all ttf packages..
I had the problem for 1,5 years ago... Sorry.

JoccE

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

Tried installing the ones you linked

Still nothing

The AUR package for all TTF fonts is broken

snooga

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

Okay i checked it  now

pacman -Qs | grep ttf
local/ttf-dejavu 2.35-1
local/ttf-droid 20121017-4
local/ttf-hanazono 20160201-1
local/ttf-liberation 2.00.1-6
local/ttf-oxygen 1:5.4.3-1
local/ttf-symbola 8.00-1

Please try... but i am note sure..

JoccE

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

Nope all of those are now installed and still no ÅÄÖ

JoccE

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED]Steam-game CS GO Special Characters

SOLVED!

Gah such a simple solution -.-
I was running arch under en_GB
After enabling en_US in /etc/locale.get
It worked..