Updated today, hopefully all text/font/language issues now fixed (windows) — Democracy 3 News

Hi, as I'm sure some of you know already, we recently released an update to the game to support Unicode text, allowing us to support some new languages such as Russian and Chinese. As a result of the new code, some players experienced problems with text rendering and fonts, making the game unplayable. We are deeply sorry for this.

We set up the original (pre-Unicode) build under a beta called 'classic' which you can still access, but obviously this was no help to those of you who bought the game in the new languages such as Russian, Portuguese or Chinese.

We have now (we are 95% sure) fixed this issue for everyone and uploaded a new build today which should work on all PCs, all languages. if you have in the past switched to the 'classic' beta, you might want to leave that now and re-join the main build of the game.

Hue apologies to everyone who was inconvenienced by this. This has been a code nightmare, but hopefully its fixed now and allows much wider language support. We would really appreciate it if people could let us know either here, the forums or directly at cliff AT positech dot co dot uk, if this new build fixes font problems for you. The new build is 1.32 and you can see the build at the top right of the main menu screen.

Thanks for your patience! we are a very small team and had not encountered this issue before (most developers never deal with Unicode support but we wanted to support Chinese and Russian players).

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