Uneven letters in a text box

Hello forum, here's what's happening to me today...

I've created a text box in my UI (typical Text (Script) on a Rect Transform). The font is Unity's default Arial, size 18, normal, line spacing 1, no material applied. Here is how it looks like (magnified 4 times with the Gimp, red lines added for emphasis).



Notice how the O, T, E and S characters are lower, while the U, I, L and N are upper. I have no reason why this is happening, but it's rather ugly in a low res UI like the one I'm using. Anyone knows what's happening?

 

All right, I was trying to strip my project of anything unnecessary to fill in a bug report, and I incidentaly found the origin of the problem (by not the solution though). Since I need a somewhat pixellated look, I switch all my text fields to FilterMode.Point with a dedicated script. Here is the script that I was using :

Code (CSharp):

1. [ExecuteInEditMode]
2. public class ResolutionFonte : MonoBehaviour {
3.  
4.     public int résolutionInitiale;
5.     public Vector2 dimensionsInitiales;
6.  
7.     void Awake () {
8.         Text leTexte = this.GetComponent<Text> ();
9.         leTexte.font.material.mainTexture.filterMode = FilterMode.Point;
10.         résolutionInitiale=leTexte.fontSize;
11.         dimensionsInitiales=leTexte.rectTransform.sizeDelta;
12.     }
13. }

The line ending with FilterMode.Point is the one that causes the problem. See example below:
- up, with Unity's default filtermomde (bilinear I think)
- down, with FilterMode.Point. Notice the irregular letter vertical alignment.



Is there a way to solve the problem or is it inherent to Unity's Arial font in Filtermode point?

(note, I've also got a weird artifact on the right side af the frame that's distorted in game mode but straight in editor mode, I don't think it's related to the previous problem but who knows)

 

@karl_jones Is this enough info, or do I still have to fill in a bug report? I fear I won't be able to say anything more than what is stated in the previous post...

(note, the graphic artefact is not related to the text filter mode problem)

 

For anyone else having this issue, I fixed this by setting the "root" canvas (The one holding absolutely everything) to "Pixel Perfect"