TextMesh Pro The Russian letters aren't shown. Instead of them blocks. Help please!

MramidK1 · Apr 28, 2017

Hi, everybody! I apologize for my English) Google the translator)

If it is short, then the Russian letters and symbols aren't displayed. I tried to generate shrit via the generator, but also he doesn't see the Russian symbols. Don't prompt as it is possible to solve this problem? I apply screenshots.

Stephan_B · Apr 28, 2017

In the Font Asset Creator - Character Set, you have selected ASCII which will only include the ASCII character set in the font asset.

To include characters for different languages like Russian which uses the Cyrillic character set, you have to include those in your selection. According to the Unicode Chart where you can learn about the Unicode range for all languages, Cyrillic is located in the range of 0400-04FF.

Here is an example of an SDF Font Asset that I can use as Fallback using Unicode Range 400-4FF which include the Cyrillic set.

Please take the time to watch the video about Font Asset Creation as all these options are explained including localization. I also strongly suggest you watch the video about Material Presets which is equally important.

I also suggest you use SDF 16 or SDF 32 as this will give you the most flexibility and allow you to use Material Presets to define different visual styles for your text.

MramidK1 · Apr 28, 2017

thanks for the help

Rich_A · May 21, 2019

To the creator, respectfully, you are making this way too difficult.

There are a handful of common languages that should be simple to implement, with standard instructions:

Extended ASCII (Latin-based languages) + Cyrillic covers 95%+ of games and fonts

Then separate instructions for Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

We shouldn't need to hunt down font tables in obscure PDFs.

So:

What are the precise settings I need to enter to have Extended ASCII + Cyrillic?

Edit: Here are the settings that worked for me:

0000 - 4FF

Giving English, German, Russian.

Easy right!? No need to watch a 20 minute tutorial

Edit: you'll probably need a 4k Atlas for this. Zooming in I can see a lot of font simplifcation

Stephan_B · May 21, 2019

If you are using the latest release of the TextMesh Pro package which is version 1.4.1 for Unity 2018.3 and Unity 2018.4 or version 2.0.1 for Unity 2019.x with the new Dynamic SDF support, you simply need to create a dynamic font asset and make sure your select font contains the appropriate characters and that is it.

If you are using the previous version, you need to define the range of characters you wish to include which would be extended ASCII and then create a fallback font asset that contains the Cyrillic character set which is unicode range 0400-04FF as shown in my previous post. Then assign this Cyrillic font asset as fallback to your primary Extended ASCII one.

Rich_A · May 21, 2019

Thanks for the reply. I'm using I2 Localisation, so I can just set a separate font.

I tried with 0000-4FF with a 4K Atlas and 32 render setting, but it crashed the editor.

Stephan_B · May 21, 2019

Rich_A said: ↑

Thanks for the reply. I'm using I2 Localisation, so I can just set a separate font.

I tried with 0000-4FF with a 4K Atlas and 32 render setting, but it crashed the editor.
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0000-04FFF would result in adding a bunch of undesired characters. Each language exists in a given unicode block so it is best to either use the dynamic SDF system (if you don't want to worry about any of this) or to specify the unicode block you really need.

I realize the learning about Unicode is boring but it is there for a reason.

P.S. I will consider adding an addition option in the Font Asset Creator to include something like Extended ASCII + Cyrillic.

Skyblade · Jun 6, 2019

Ok, where I can get Arial font with Cyrillic characters? I see only LiberationSans.

Stephan_B · Jun 6, 2019

A good place to look for fonts is Google Fonts where you can select which language you are interested in.

Commercial fonts such as Arial are available from MyFonts.com where the appropriate license must be acquired.

Skyblade · Jun 9, 2019

I have similar problem when copying cyrillic text to a clipboard.
Instead of the text I see some garbage:

What's happening?

If I check scene asset, I can see pretty normal Unicode sequence:

mOriginalText: "\u0415\u0441\u043B\u0438 \u043C\u044B \u0441 \u0442\u043E\u0431\u043E\u0439
\u043B\u0438\u0447\u043D\u043E \u0437\u043D\u0430\u043A\u043E\u043C\u044B, \u0442\u043E,
\u0441\u043A\u043E\u0440\u0435\u0435 \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u043E, \u044F \u043F\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0430\u043B
\u0442\u0435\u0431\u0435 \u0438\u0433\u0440\u0443 \u0438 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043A\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043B
\u043E \u043D\u0435\u0439. \u0415\u0441\u043B\u0438 \u0436\u0435 \u043D\u0435\u0442,
\u0442\u043E \u044D\u0442\u043E \u0441\u0434\u0435\u043B\u0430\u043B\u0438 \u043C\u043E\u0438
\u0430\u0434\u0435\u043F\u0442\u044B. \u0422\u044B \u0437\u043D\u0430\u0435\u0448\u044C,
\u043E \u0447\u0451\u043C \u044D\u0442\u0430 \u0438\u0433\u0440\u0430?"
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Stephan_B · Jun 9, 2019

Skyblade said: ↑

I have similar problem when copying cyrillic text to a clipboard.
Instead of the text I see some garbage:
View attachment 433990
What's happening?

If I check scene asset, I can see pretty normal Unicode sequence:
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What text are you copy / pasting? Provide me with the exact text please.

Can you post an image of the font atlas texture of your font asset or provide me with the font asset and font file?

Skyblade · Jun 10, 2019

I'm copying "Текст" string.
If I paste it into any text field, say, Notepad, it's corrupted.

Here is the atlas (Arial SDF).

Stephan_B · Jun 10, 2019

Skyblade said: ↑

I'm copying "Текст" string.
If I paste it into any text field, say, Notepad, it's corrupted.

Here is the atlas (Arial SDF).
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I looked at your font asset and everything appears to be working as expected. Copying the text from the input field into Notepad works fine. Copying from Notepad back to the text field works fine on my end as well.

Can you post images or some video of what you are experiencing?

What version of Unity and TextMesh Pro are you using again?

Skyblade · Jun 11, 2019

I'm using Unity 2019.1.5.f1 (also applies to newer versions up to 2019.3.0a5) and TextMeshPro 2.0.1.
Here is the sample project below.
Here is the sample video:

Stephan_B · Jun 11, 2019

Skyblade said: ↑

I'm using Unity 2019.1.5.f1 (also applies to newer versions up to 2019.3.0a5) and TextMeshPro 2.0.1.
Here is the sample project below.
Here is the sample video:
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Thank you for the video.

This appears to be a bug in the Editor related to the Copy / Clipboard function. This appears to be an issue introduced at some point in 2019.1 and still present in early alpha of 2019.3 but not in the latest.

There are a few bug reports about this already. I'll check internally to see when the fix for this will be back ported to previous version of 2019.x.

alex_unity140 · Jul 22, 2019

Stephan_B said: ↑

Thank you for the video.

This appears to be a bug in the Editor related to the Copy / Clipboard function. This appears to be an issue introduced at some point in 2019.1 and still present in early alpha of 2019.3 but not in the latest.

There are a few bug reports about this already. I'll check internally to see when the fix for this will be back ported to previous version of 2019.x.
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Same issue with any copy/paste actions and cyrillic symbols in Editor. Using 2019.2.0b7

LexaMV · Aug 15, 2019

Hi, I also had this problem before. And I realized that it is easier to set the TestMeshPro characters that I need in Russian. I ask 33 uppercase letters, 33 ordinary letters, 10 digits, and all punctuation, math, etc. Almost always, I do not find 2 - 3 characters, but this is not essential.

Привет, я то же раньше сталкивался с этой проблемой. И понял что проще задать TestMeshPro символы которые мне нужны в русском языке. Я задаю 33 заглавные буквы, 33 обычные буквы, 10 цифр, и все знаки препинания, математические и т. д. Практически всегда у меня не находит 2 - 3 символа, но это не существенно.

Stephan_B · Aug 15, 2019

LexaMV said: ↑

Hi, I also had this problem before. And I realized that it is easier to set the TestMeshPro characters that I need in Russian. I ask 33 uppercase letters, 33 ordinary letters, 10 digits, and all punctuation, math, etc. Almost always, I do not find 2 - 3 characters, but this is not essential.

Привет, я то же раньше сталкивался с этой проблемой. И понял что проще задать TestMeshPro символы которые мне нужны в русском языке. Я задаю 33 заглавные буквы, 33 обычные буквы, 10 цифр, и все знаки препинания, математические и т. д. Практически всегда у меня не находит 2 - 3 символа, но это не существенно.
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Provided the requested characters are present in the source font file, you can always create / assign a dynamic fallback font asset to the primary font asset. See how the LiberationSans SDF and its fallback are setup in the latest version of TMP which is 1.4.1 for Unity 2018.4 and 2.0.1 for Unity 2019.x.

LexaMV · Aug 15, 2019

I don’t know about
TMP 2.0.1 for Unity 2019.x.))))

kumade · Apr 10, 2020

Stephan_B said: ↑

Provided the requested characters are present in the source font file, you can always create / assign a dynamic fallback font asset to the primary font asset. See how the LiberationSans SDF and its fallback are setup in the latest version of TMP which is 1.4.1 for Unity 2018.4 and 2.0.1 for Unity 2019.x.
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Speaking of Liberation Fallback. It has letters of Cyrillic alphabet but for some reason it misses the capital Russian "Р" (it looks like capital English "P" but it's not). So every time you have capital Р - it shows a square. Or you have to manually replace all Russian P with English P. I believe that's a weird bug I'm on Unity 2019.3.6 btw.

vselockov · Apr 19, 2020

Latin+Cyrillic+Underline+Strikeout:
Unicode Range (HEX)
0030-007F,0400-04FF

Stephan_B · Apr 19, 2020

kumade said: ↑

Speaking of Liberation Fallback. It has letters of Cyrillic alphabet but for some reason it misses the capital Russian "Р" (it looks like capital English "P" but it's not). So every time you have capital Р - it shows a square. Or you have to manually replace all Russian P with English P. I believe that's a weird bug I'm on Unity 2019.3.6 btw.
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I would suggest getting a font editor / tool that will enable you to look at the font file to known exactly what characters and glyphs are present. In this particular, it would enable you to verify if the "P" is in fact missing from LiberationSans.

It is very common for font files to be missing support for certain languages, having partial support for languages or missing some characters for languages they mostly support.

There are a lot of font tools available like BMFont, FontForge and High-Logic Font Creator. Font Creator is not free but there is a trial version.

BMFont is a good tool to quickly check for character and language coverage but I personally use Font Creator which is a much more powerful and sophisticated tool font creation and editing tool.

wagenheimer · Oct 28, 2020

I have a problem with Font Fallback and Russian Letters when I use "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps" with TextMeshPro.

My Font Fallback does use the ume-ugo5 font, which supports almost everything.

The default text is - Меню

If I did'nt check the "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps" on the settings it works.

But it shows a square If I'm using "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps".

Is this an expected bug?

Stephan_B · Oct 28, 2020

wagenheimer said: ↑

I have a problem with Font Fallback and Russian Letters when I use "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps" with TextMeshPro.

My Font Fallback does use the ume-ugo5 font, which supports almost everything.

The default text is - Меню

If I did'nt check the "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps" on the settings it works.

But it shows a square If I'm using "Uppercase" or "Smallcaps".

Is this an expected bug?
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Just tested with that font file and it appears to be working as expected as seen below

Normal, Uppercase and Smallcaps.

Is your font asset dynamic or static? If it is static, you might not have included those uppercase variant characters in the font asset.

Here is an image of the Character Table from my dynamic font asset that includes those characters. Check if your font asset contains those unicodes / characters.

wagenheimer · Oct 28, 2020

To make it work, I had to manually select "Unicode Range (Hex)" and then add the code 042E to it!

I'm using dynamic font and that should not be necessary.

I normally use "Characters from File" and I use a file text with all my game texts in lowercase and uppercase, but this doesn't worked for me.

Stephan_B · Oct 28, 2020

wagenheimer said: ↑

I'm using dynamic font and that should not be necessary.
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Dynamic Font or Dynamic Font Asset?

Since you are using the Font Asset Creator, I presume dynamic font and not font asset.

wagenheimer said: ↑

I normally use "Characters from File" and I use a file text with all my game texts in lowercase and uppercase, but this doesn't worked for me.
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Characters from File would not necessarily include this character unless it was in that list. Lowercase, Uppercase variants are unique characters and thus have to be listed as well.

Note: To handle similar situations in the future, I would recommend adding a dynamic fallback and assigning to your primary static font asset. This way, this dynamic fallback will be able to handle any potential characters and glyphs contained in that font file without having to specifically add them to your static font asset.

Make sure the sampling point size to padding ratio is the same between the primary and fallback(s).

Also make sure to Reset the dynamic fallback prior to creating your build to clear its data which will also reset its atlas texture to size zero where it will not contribute to the build size.

irontal · Nov 28, 2020

Stephan_B said: ↑

If you are using the latest release of the TextMesh Pro package which is version 1.4.1 for Unity 2018.3 and Unity 2018.4 or version 2.0.1 for Unity 2019.x with the new Dynamic SDF support, you simply need to create a dynamic font asset and make sure your select font contains the appropriate characters and that is it.

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This solved my problem, thank you Stephan!
I added a text with my needed characters (Hebrew here) and it worked like a charm

Kaldrin · Mar 10, 2021

Stephan_B said: ↑

In the Font Asset Creator - Character Set, you have selected ASCII which will only include the ASCII character set in the font asset.

To include characters for different languages like Russian which uses the Cyrillic character set, you have to include those in your selection. According to the Unicode Chart where you can learn about the Unicode range for all languages, Cyrillic is located in the range of 0400-04FF.

Here is an example of an SDF Font Asset that I can use as Fallback using Unicode Range 400-4FF which include the Cyrillic set.

View attachment 228828

Please take the time to watch the video about Font Asset Creation as all these options are explained including localization. I also strongly suggest you watch the video about Material Presets which is equally important.

I also suggest you use SDF 16 or SDF 32 as this will give you the most flexibility and allow you to use Material Presets to define different visual styles for your text.
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Thank you very much this was very useful!

atulvi · Jul 1, 2021

It works in TextMeshPro.

Step 01: Download Font
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open the link https://fonts.google.com/ . Click right on corner Browse fonts click. and type the font in search box.
Font List
1. Noto Sans [find On Google fonts]
2. Roboto [find On Google fonts] 3)
3. Code2000 [But it's not open source.]
4. Futura
5. Arial
Download Family for your favorite font.

Step 02: Install TextMeshPro plugin
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from Package manager. After copy the font file NotoSans-Regular.ttf and paste to this directory. [Ex. Asset > TextMesh Pro > Resources > Fonts & Materials > paste NotoSans-Regular.ttf file]

Step 03: Create SDF for font. if any one
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1. **Select NotoSans-Regular.ttf file** and create font asset SDF from menu bar Assets > Create > TextMeshPro > Font Asset OR
2. Short Cut-> Shift + Ctrl + F12 OR
3. **Select NotoSans-Regular.ttf file** and click mouse right button and create SDF from Create > TextMeshPro > Font Asset

Step 04: Add Other font SDF in to your primary or existing font SDF.
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Select primary font SDF and show the inspector go to Fallback Font Assets. Added the NotoSans-Regular SDF in to Fallback list. [Multiple fonts added in to primary font SDF]

vselockov · Mar 2, 2022

Cyrillic + ASCII Punctuation & Symbols + Numbers: 0400-04FF,0020-007E

Minerva-IT-Solutions · May 8, 2022

I have still the same issue. Dont know why it have to be so complicated in unity. is there in 2022 a easy solution? I think localization should be the highest prioty für unity

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