It’s been quite a long time that players in certain regions find the font used by Minecraft is “non-standard“ to what they have been taught, and is causing certain reading issues. Previously similar issues (like MC-261846) is already solved by adding Unifont JP to the game with the option “Japanese Glyph Variants“. We can easily solve this issue for Traditional Chinese (zh-tw) now by adding T-source Unifont variant into this game.
Unifont recently released 17.0.04, which brings a new T-source variant that corresponds to one of the Traditional Chinese (language code being zh-tw in game). By adding this variant to the game, it can help corresponding players with a more familiar kind of glyphs being used in game.
Just like how we already have “Japanese Glyph Variants“, the way to solve this bug report is to simply add another similar option / add and merge the option to choose to use T-source glyph variant to it. Considering that certain naming things could bring various problems, I suggest that the Option be named as “CJK Glyph Variants“, and has three options that corresponds to what Unicode names them according to IRG Source Prefixes:
G-source: the base, default variant of Unifont. This variant is used by Simplified Chinese, and is the first variant that Unifont has had.
J-source: the Japanese variant of Unifont. This variant should be used by Japanese, and is the second variant that Unifont has had.
T-source: the newest variant of Unifont that corresponds to the glyphs given by Unicode chart that has prefix of T. This variant is used by
zh-tw.zh-hkin theory has their own glyphs that in chart with prefix of H, but Unifont does not have this variant yet.
If it still brings problem, consider name the above 3 options as Unifont Unifont JP Unifont T by directly using the font family name.
The latest hex file is now available. I have put the hex file in a resource pack in the attachment, for trial use if other bug reporters would like to try it out.
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Windows 11
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To clarify, this is not a request but instead a BUG REPORT, as we are using the wrong font. Some comparison is provided below.
This also sort of involves [MC-241824] Certain fullwidth punctuation are center-aligned instead of corner-justified, because in Traditional Chinese (zh-tw) it is expected that all fullwidth punctuation are center aligned instead of corner justified. Here is more comparison:
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