Fix: don't complain when the sprite font is missing glyphs. (#9692)

Silently auto-pick a suitable font.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/strings.cpp b/src/strings.cpp
index 7ff1cee31..bfbde9b0d 100644
--- a/src/strings.cpp
+++ b/src/strings.cpp
@@ -2116,6 +2116,7 @@ void CheckForMissingGlyphs(bool base_font, MissingGlyphSearcher *searcher)
 	if (bad_font) {
 		/* We found an unprintable character... lets try whether we can find
 		 * a fallback font that can print the characters in the current language. */
+		bool any_font_configured = !_freetype.medium.font.empty();
 		FreeTypeSettings backup = _freetype;
 
 		_freetype.mono.os_handle = nullptr;
@@ -2125,10 +2126,10 @@ void CheckForMissingGlyphs(bool base_font, MissingGlyphSearcher *searcher)
 
 		_freetype = backup;
 
-		if (!bad_font) {
-			/* Show that we loaded fallback font. To do this properly we have
-			 * to set the colour of the string, otherwise we end up with a lot
-			 * of artifacts.* The colour 'character' might change in the
+		if (!bad_font && any_font_configured) {
+			/* If the user configured a bad font, and we found a better one,
+			 * show that we loaded the better font instead of the configured one.
+			 * The colour 'character' might change in the
 			 * future, so for safety we just Utf8 Encode it into the string,
 			 * which takes exactly three characters, so it replaces the "XXX"
 			 * with the colour marker. */