How to fix those text squares?

[Dannygs90]

Well, I've changed the text font in my project and now it shows a square instead of some punctuation marks and numbers. It happens with every font now. How can I fix this?

 

[bgillisp]

I've moved this thread to ACE Support. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Andar]

basically the square means that the program tries to display a symbol that is not included in the font used. As such there are very few ways to solve this:
1) modify the fontfile to include the missing symbol
2) switch back to a font that already includes the missing symbols
3) search through the engine code until you have found the place where the symbol is in the strings and replace that symbol with one that is included in the new font.

a lot of people go with option 3, but that means you'll have to be able to find the places in the engine code that needs to be changed.

 

[Dannygs90]

basically the square means that the program tries to display a symbol that is not included in the font used. As such there are very few ways to solve this:
1) modify the fontfile to include the missing symbol
2) switch back to a font that already includes the missing symbols
3) search through the engine code until you have found the place where the symbol is in the strings and replace that symbol with one that is included in the new font.

a lot of people go with option 3, but that means you'll have to be able to find the places in the engine code that needs to be changed.

Actually, it happens with every single font, including the one I used before, so it is not about any missing symbol. And the problem is... I dont know how to do any of those 3 options.

 

[kyonides]

Then it could be an encoding issue. The Maker uses UTF-8 only. Some websites don't adhere to such encoding but use Western or Latin-1 or JIS if Japanese.
If you know what kind of characters they're supposed to be, replace them yourself.

 

[Dannygs90]

Then it could be an encoding issue. The Maker uses UTF-8 only. Some websites don't adhere to such encoding but use Western or Latin-1 or JIS if Japanese.
If you know what kind of characters they're supposed to be, replace them yourself.

I don't even know how to replace those characters, I know nothing about coding...
But I dont think thats the problem, cause it happens with every singles font, even the one I used before this happened.

 

[Dannygs90]

Im not sure if anyone is going to see this, but this bug is not because of any missing symbol. This only happens on battles.

 

[A-Moonless-Night]

Try the Custom Font Junk Symbol Fix here.

 

[kyonides]

Well, @Dannygs90, that's what YOU think. Sadly, the maker doesn't agree with you.
So a missing symbol here might also mean "unknown" or not supposed to be used by humans. LF or CR and the like are used by machines. Usually you'd only get such an error if you edited a script with a different encoding. Perhaps you didn't, but I suspect you had the names of your heroes and foes written on some TXT file or word document. Probably you carried those invisible symbols along after pasting them on the database editor.

 

[Dannygs90]

Try the Custom Font Junk Symbol Fix here.

Where am I supposed to put that script? If I copy it into the process_normal_character line in window_base, the game just crashes.

 

[Dannygs90]

Well, @Dannygs90, that's what YOU think. Sadly, the maker doesn't agree with you.
So a missing symbol here might also mean "unknown" or not supposed to be used by humans. LF or CR and the like are used by machines. Usually you'd only get such an error if you edited a script with a different encoding. Perhaps you didn't, but I suspect you had the names of your heroes and foes written on some TXT file or word document. Probably you carried those invisible symbols along after pasting them on the database editor.

I didn't carry anything, I wrote everything myself, even the battlers and enemies names. Those blank spaces are just everywhere, not just in names.

 

[KK20]

Guys, the missing characters are the A, B, C, etc to distinguish the different enemies. Game_Troop defines those letters as:

  LETTER_TABLE_HALF = [' A',' B',' C',' D',' E',' F',' G',' H',' I',' J',
                       ' K',' L',' M',' N',' O',' P',' Q',' R',' S',' T',
                       ' U',' V',' W',' X',' Y',' Z']
  LETTER_TABLE_FULL = ['Ａ','Ｂ','Ｃ','Ｄ','Ｅ','Ｆ','Ｇ','Ｈ','Ｉ','Ｊ',
                       'Ｋ','Ｌ','Ｍ','Ｎ','Ｏ','Ｐ','Ｑ','Ｒ','Ｓ','Ｔ',
                       'Ｕ','Ｖ','Ｗ','Ｘ','Ｙ','Ｚ']

It uses LETTER_TABLE_FULL if $game_system.japanese? is true. So we can come to the conclusion that Danny's game is made with the Japanese version of VXA and the font file being used does not support those specific characters.

An easy work-around would be to Game_System, find def japanese? and replace it with

  def japanese?
    false
  end

 

[Dannygs90]

Guys, the missing characters are the A, B, C, etc to distinguish the different enemies. Game_Troop defines those letters as:

  LETTER_TABLE_HALF = [' A',' B',' C',' D',' E',' F',' G',' H',' I',' J',
                       ' K',' L',' M',' N',' O',' P',' Q',' R',' S',' T',
                       ' U',' V',' W',' X',' Y',' Z']
  LETTER_TABLE_FULL = ['Ａ','Ｂ','Ｃ','Ｄ','Ｅ','Ｆ','Ｇ','Ｈ','Ｉ','Ｊ',
                       'Ｋ','Ｌ','Ｍ','Ｎ','Ｏ','Ｐ','Ｑ','Ｒ','Ｓ','Ｔ',
                       'Ｕ','Ｖ','Ｗ','Ｘ','Ｙ','Ｚ']

It uses LETTER_TABLE_FULL if $game_system.japanese? is true. So we can come to the conclusion that Danny's game is made with the Japanese version of VXA and the font file being used does not support those specific characters.

An easy work-around would be to Game_System, find def japanese? and replace it with

  def japanese?
    false
  end

Actually, I already did all of that, and the letters are not the only problem.

 

[KK20]

Again, your font file doesn't support the characters.
In your Vocab section

EnemyDamage = "¡%s ha perdido %s PV！"

That last exclamation point is different from this: !

 

[Dannygs90]

Again, your font file doesn't support the characters.
In your Vocab section

EnemyDamage = "¡%s ha perdido %s PV！"

That last exclamation point is different from this: !

Ummmm...

 

[KK20]

What? It's up to you to go fix them all.

 

[Dannygs90]

What? It's up to you to go fix them all.

OOOOOK I REPLACED EVERY SINGLE EXCLAMATION MARK AND NOW IT WORKS. I didn't know those weren't actually exclamation marks, that's so weird... But the only missing symbol now are those arrows. Any idea on how to fix those?

 

[KK20]

Window_EquipStatus

  def draw_right_arrow(x, y)
    change_color(system_color)
    draw_text(x, y, 22, line_height, "→", 1)
  end

Update the arrow character to whatever your font supports.

 

[Dannygs90]

Window_EquipStatus

  def draw_right_arrow(x, y)
    change_color(system_color)
    draw_text(x, y, 22, line_height, "→", 1)
  end

Update the arrow character to whatever your font supports.

Ok, just replaced it with a dash and now it works perfectly. Thanks a lot!!

 

[kyonides]

Then your font gotta be really botched if it can't show up exclamation symbols at all. What's the font name so we don't use it in the near future.
And even if you say you didn't copy scripts from external sources, one of your latests screenshot gives you away. It's that or your (automatic) copy of those strings in Spanish was flawed.
Why don't you test it on a new project to see if this was a one time event? Otherwise you'd need to repeat the same process all over again every time you want to start making a new game.