Fix for Asian Font Problem on Windows OS

[hakulog]

Hello. I didn't expect to be writing to you again so soon.

There was an issue with Asian fonts on the Windows OS.
I was unaware of this as I am a macOS user. A friend reported the issue, so I borrowed a Windows laptop to fix it.

I'm not sure of the exact cause, but it seems like the font-related library couldn't load the fonts.

In the attached image, you can see one in Korean and one in Japanese. In both, the fonts are broken on the main screen.

I only fixed the Korean part, and it works well, so I'm leaving this note here.

It's from line 7522 in the /src/main.py file.

elif self.locale_str == 'ko':
	#self.set_mpl_fontproperties('C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\batang.ttc')
	mpl.rcParams['font.family'] = 'Malgun Gothic'

I'm happy to be able to contribute to such a great program, even in this small way.
Thank you always for the quick feedback.

[Terracotta-6]

Select your desired country/language from the dropdown toolbar.

[hakulog]

It looks like there was a setting here! Thanks for letting me know!

[MAKOMO]

@hakulog did you had a chance to check the new Continuous Build which contains a change in the default settings along the lines of your proposal? Does this one select a Korean default font on Windows correctly now?

[hakulog]

@MAKOMO

It works!
The New Continuous Build supports Korean fonts by default. I'm really happy with it. Thanks!

[MAKOMO]

Excellent news! Thanks for triggering and suggesting this change!

[MAKOMO]

Dear HarioSwitch,

this is a good valuable contribution. I don't have access to a Windows machine and thus cannot verify this. It is known that the default MPL font that Artisan is using lacks most of the Asian characters. Therefore we included some specific fonts supporting the Asian languages in Artisan which can be selected under menu Config >> Curves, tab UI as Terracotta-6 correctly pointed you too.

However, it would be of course better to have the default font already supporting all characters of the selected language. We tried this in the code of main.py you pointed to some years ago, but those fonts seem not to be installed on modern Windows systems or located in different places. Your suggestion is a good one. I implemented a variant of it, also for Chinese and Japanese. The current MPL versions seem to support a list of fonts, trying one by one until they find the characters they are looking for. So in the best case this just works now for you. If not, I can fall back to your solution. Sadly I have no access to a computer running Windows to test this.

On macOS Artisan uses by default the 'Arial Unicode MS' which contains all characters but since Windows 10 this one seem not to be installed any longer by default on Windows.

New continuous builds are currently created by CI. Let me know how this goes or if this needs further adjustment.

THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!

[Terracotta-6]

Verification Notes for Version 7c1ba10
When installing Artisan on a Windows 11 Simplified Chinese system environment, the operating system will automatically recognize the system language environment and set the software’s default font (Font Default) to "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" and "Source Han Sans CN". The core value of this optimization is that there is no longer a need to manually configure settings related to these two fonts—this further enhances the installation experience for Chinese users while reducing the number of operations in the configuration process.

Supplementary Note: Version Verification Scope
Verification of this version (7c1ba10) has not yet been conducted in the Traditional Chinese Windows system environment, primarily due to the lack of a corresponding Traditional Chinese Windows system available for testing. If access to such a system environment is obtained in the future, further verification will be carried out to confirm Artisan’s automatic language adaptation performance in the Traditional Chinese system, ensuring the software’s compatibility across different Chinese system versions.