The Unicode font is hard to read from a bit of distance

You turned on unicode because you picked french.

If I disable Unicode, the French font still works. So why not do otherwise? ^^

There are many fonts like this. Bug literally means incorrect functionality. This is an annoyance.

agree but most people complain about it; and it is possible, by performing some manipulations, back to the original font

I'm going to agree with this complain. This font is really ugly. Russian players prefers to patch (or mod) Minecraft to return back original font.

This font is not noticeable at signs. If you use a colors at sign it's 99% that players with this font will no be able to read this text.
Dimensions of chat, books and signs are bounded to normal font size, so with this UTF-font interface looks really ugly.

I understand that "it's not a bug, but feature". But it's bad feature, may be badder than some bugs.

And I think it's a good idea to change font (font size) or allow players to choose TTF font manually.

Reopened, since the font renders parts of the game quite unreadable.

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Nobody cares :'(

Yes I have this feeling but it's very important ...

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.7.2 / Launcher version 1.3.4 ? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Yes, this problem also affects the latest versions!

I agree! The unicode font really needs getting bigger, it should look like the good old english font but it doesn't 😞

For what version was this resolved fixed?

Maybe, it's not a bug,
but why not just fix that?

15w41b - unicode font is still very thin and looks ugly.
Minecraft: Story mode uses same font but it's bold version - and it looks much better.

Reopened.

Normal cyrillic font

Jumpin Carrot you added a bitmap font. But we need a good looking unicode font, that supports all languages, emojis and other special symbols.

I think good idea is to add support for Google fonts, https://www.google.com/fonts
Use one of this fonts as default. And additionally add option to allow select another fonts from Google Font collections

Why not just make a good looking bitmap fonts for every language?

Jumping Carrot, because there's a 68 languages included into Minecraft and there is no chance that developers will paint bitmap for every language.
Changing the default unicode font or allowing players to configure it is a really verisimilar solution.

It would be great if custom bitmap fonts where allowed via resource packs. But it's not quite possible because of the MC-23952 and MC-27912

signs are not readable with unicode font on from a distance further then 2 blocks from the head in 16w07b

1.9 pre-release 1 release and this ticket was ignored 😞
Again 😞

not wanting to sound greedy, but may I be changed to reported to keeps the affected versions up to date?

Not greedy at all, everybody reasonably active should request to adopt inactive tickets if they find themselves doing a lot of upkeep for them anyway.

Yes, it's the main problem I suffer from for couple of years.

@unknown easy, complaining, or telling somebody what to do/how to do something, never helps

FVbico, It's all what I can. 🙂
The more activity the more likely that developers will notice.

As you may notice, a fix was already attempted in 1.7.3, and @unknown is assigned.

FVbico, then what should happen to the developers tried to make the fix once again?

Votes

@FVbico
I wrote in my blog about your hard work with updating this ticket 🙂
I hope it will add few votes 🙂

If I may suggest a community fix (for 1.8.X)?

Comon! It must be fixed, I can't switch to my native language because it's unreadable.

I made a poll in my blog about translation.

And 21% did not use Russian translation because they don't like "unicode" font 😞

Original blog post is here: http://minecraftmain.ru/2016/04/kazhdyj-25-j-igrok-v-majnkraft-1-9-x-govorit-po-russki/

P.S. Image with poll result uploaded too

This issue title is misleading: it doesn't cover how much it affects non-English speaking players. Info about bold (§l) is also missing.

The font is a toggle-able option, and every language can have it enabled, for example I like the font a lot, and I just have minecraft on english, but it's just unreadable at smaller scale, so how is the title misleading? As for the bold, I saw a report about that before, but can't seem to find it anymore.
Edit: found it: MC-76356.

Main issue isn't about "oh, I can't see it from large distance". It's about style compatibility of different languages. Unicode wasn't meant to fit Minecraft font style. This ruins game esthetics for non-English players. And the sad thing that they can't report it for obvious reasons: most of the players affected by this issue don't speak Enlgish and surely don't know about this bug tracker.

This is why this issue should have higher priority despite amount of votes.

Like I said before, it's the font in general that doesn't function properly, and any user, english or not, can enable and disable the font at will. that it doesn't match the rest of the game's text stile is because it's a different text style, there's a difference between the default font and unicode font, that a number of characters aren't supported in default font is a separate issue, but when selecting a language that has such characters, unicode font gets enabled automatically, and turning it off is your choice.

The issue in this ticket is that it makes part of the game unreadable when enabled:

• Gui scale small.

• Signs from 2-3 blocks distance.

• Scaling chat lower then 60 % (gui scale normal).

I'll reopen MC-101117, if you change the report to "some characters have unicode variant, but not default font".

Thanks. Is the new name ok? Or you insist on your title?

Confirmed for 1.10.

I just tried some resize algorymths in paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net).
"Next neighbor" produces a similar result to what happens with Unicode in Minecraft.
"Bicubic" and "bilinear" give a really good result with grey scales.
"Best quality" probably chooses between the three.
If it's possible without affecting performance much, an algorythm might be considered that keeps the important points of letters always connected. Meaning that instead of having a picture of the letter, there are certain points saved that have to be connected either by a line or a quarter circle. A bit like a vector graphic. That would of course remove the functionality of custom fonts through texture packs, except if they use vector graphics. Would have to be discussed if the bug fix is worth that.
I've also seen a report once about an algorythm of scaling up/down letters in black/white, but I don't remember where. But I don't think it was for small scales, more for small details in big fonts.
I don't know if it's helpful in any way, but I'll just leave this here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html

Confirmed for 1.10.1.

Set to postponed, as it won't be fixed soon.

Should I still confirm it for every snapshot, for every major release or not at all?

Not needed. A fix won't be attempted for now anyway.
It's not disallowed either.

Now you can try to use alternative resource pack.
This one is based on Kapo's mod and works fine without modding:
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/minecraft-font-pc

This issue has been resolved today in 1.13-pre6.

So I'd say despite some issues, this can be flagged as resolved.

Can someone else confirm that this is fixed in 1.13-pre6?

The "force unicode font" button has been removed from the language menu so there isn't really a way for me to reproduce this anymore.

Don’t some languages still enforce unicode, or was it removed altogether?

I think unicode-font is better in Chinese.

ascii:

unicode:

@FVbico: Some languages were ridden of the unicode font, but lots of others still have it (e.g. Arabic and similar-looking languages).

Confirmed for 1.13.1.

I'm not sure if I should ask to be the reporter of this issue as it's PostPoned, I'll update it accordingly.

This is still an issue, mostly prevalent with the pie menu.

1440p, GUI scale 1, Unicode font ON

Confirmed for 1.16 Pre-release 2.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre4.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre5.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre7.

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Can confirm in 21w07a.

1.17.30.20 is not a version that ever existed for Minecraft Java edition. If you're talking about Minecraft Bedrock edition, then you should go here instead: MCPE-15191

Problem is explained in sufficient deail there, so I'll simply delete the above.  Thank you.

Can confirm in 1.17.1. Also some characters appear as "□" with the unicode font.

Can confirm in 21w39a.

Can confirm in 21w40a.

Relates to MC-193663.

Can confirm in 21w42a.

Can confirm in 1.18 Pre-release 1.

Can confirm in 1.18 and 1.18.1 Pre-release 1.

Can confirm in 1.18.1.