# Characters crash when changing language

**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685 "2021-01-11T19:53:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![israel\_carpio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/israel_carpio/32/7657_2.png) [@israel\_carpio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/israel_carpio)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/1 "2021-01-11T19:53:11Z")

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When changing the language of the game from English to Spanish, some characters like some letters “o” or “a” are changed to strange symbols, in themselves they do not cause any failure but it complicates reading and understanding some things.

Do you know of any way to correct this?

(I have attached some screenshots of how the characters in English and Spanish look, when the problem occurs when changing the language since the characters in English are fine)

 ![Screenshot_20210111-113953](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/f/fbf3ec86b2757c023e7dd25b43833887a9dcc17f.png) ![Screenshot_20210111-113916](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/5/5f0269237c9d29a687be888c6cc8b8be85641078.png) ![Screenshot_20210111-113634](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/c/c092558af087d47cdbd418287594d262f8b624c8.png) ![Screenshot_20210111-113503](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/e/e9d50816851017826738fbb7869fbf6c4a1b03ce.png) ![Screenshot_20210111-113400](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/3/3d7a1335a17a1b3d4e37577b19da18ccef315645.png)

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### Author: ![Noctivagante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctivagante/32/365_2.png) [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/2 "2021-01-11T20:25:22Z")

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Son las vocales con tilde las que no te está mostrando bien en español, pero no sé cómo se solucionará en Android. En PC podría ser causado por el uso de alguna fuente rara.

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### Author: ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/3 "2021-01-12T09:10:21Z")

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> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/46573>
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> Describe the bug
> I use chinese
> When I long touch the key on the bottom left corner, it show tooltip with empty box
> Steps...

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### Author: ![israel\_carpio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/israel_carpio/32/7657_2.png) [@israel\_carpio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/israel_carpio)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/4 "2021-01-12T09:32:57Z")

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Okay, I’m seeing that changing the font is solved, but how do you change or have to download a file, I already found the section where the files they mention appear, what do you do next?

 ![Screenshot_20210112-013105](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/8/8aa7401eb6f1cdcab104214b7bc5b41364f301be.png)

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### Author: ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/5 "2021-01-12T10:32:30Z")

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Download ttf version of Terminus font and put it to this folder.

> **[CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/tree/master/data/font)**
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> master/data/font

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### Author: ![israel\_carpio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/israel_carpio/32/7657_2.png) [@israel\_carpio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/israel_carpio)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/characters-crash-when-changing-language/25685/6 "2021-01-13T00:50:57Z")

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Thank you very much, it was fixed, for it to grab me I had to delete the source “.fon”

 ![Screenshot_20210112-164822](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/9/9128cf7fc78e883928ce8baa786f10a465f51182.png)
