Fix the double-byte Cyrillic font

Madlark
Madlark
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This is getting ridiculous. Ever since Cyrillic support was added to the game, the chat window has been using the double-byte font for Cyrillic messages, making them look terribly stretched and annoying as hell in zone. People have been complaining for ages, to no avail. Fixing the double-byte should be a trivial matter, considering Cyrillic is only used in chat and nowhere else in-game, and it's not even graphic text but a simple font.

I work for a Japanese gamedev company and we get this issue a lot. All it takes to fix it is explaining to the developers what the problem is, and it's gone in a matter of days. And I'm talking Asian people here, who usually don't know much about how Western languages work. ZOS is a Western company.

Here is a quote from Lionbridge that explains which languages use single-byte fonts:
"Most Central European languages and Turkish use Latin-based extension characters, and these fit in the 256 character limit. Russian (and related Cyrillic scripts), Greek, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew (which use non-Latin-based characters) also do not exceed the 256 character limit.”

Here are two screenshots:
42m5b8tgc31e.png < WRONG
8yox7t7u3r7x.png < RIGHT

ZOS. For crying out loud, fix this.

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