The bundle was built by rewriting the Korean translation mod's asset bundle, so
it still carried everything that mod needed and we did not: three unused font
assets, their materials and textures, and a .resS stream holding two 2048x2048
atlases. Deleted those, dropped the stream, and rewrote m_Container and
m_PreloadTable to reference only the four surviving objects. 862 KB -> 59 KB,
verified by reloading: the embedded font still round-trips as Cabin with full
Slovak coverage and the Gill Sans MT metrics.
The 2s sweep existed to catch labels whose font the game reassigns without any
text change, which happens on a language switch. A postfix on the Text.font
setter catches exactly that, at the moment it happens rather than up to two
seconds later, and costs nothing when idle. Re-entry is safe: our own assignment
fires the hook once, which finds the state already correct and returns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stock menu font (Gill Sans MT Menu) is a static 243-glyph atlas with no
Latin Extended-A, so "Pokračovať" rendered as "Pokra ova" and "Podrž" as
"Podr". Dialogue, the Nomai translator and the ship log were always fine —
they use Futura PT (663) and Space Mono (612), both of which cover Slovak.
Registering a language font via AddLanguageFont fixes the menus but flips
TextTranslation.IsLanguageLatin() to false, and the game uses that flag to
decide whether dialogue, the translator and the ship log keep their own fonts
or fall back to the language font. So the blanket fix dragged all three onto
the wrong font, oversized and clipping.
Instead: register no language font at all, and postfix only the font getters
(UIStyleManager, PromptManager, GameOverController). Each result goes through
SlovakFont.Fix, which probes the font with Font.HasCharacter and returns it
untouched unless it genuinely cannot draw Slovak — so nothing that already
renders correctly is ever replaced, and the patches are inert in every other
language.
The substitute is Cabin (SIL OFL 1.1), a humanist sans in the Gill Sans
lineage, shipped as a dynamic font with its vertical metrics rewritten to Gill
Sans MT's exact ratios so line height matches and text does not clip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jaroslav Beneš