Help requested by a Farming Simulator 25 player from the Chinese region

[NongDeChuanRen]

Hello GtX-Andy, Christmas is just a few days away, and I want to wish you a Merry Christmas in advance. This is the warmest greeting and blessing from a Chinese FS25 player. Thank you very much for adding Simplified Chinese translation to the "FS25_EasyDevelopmentControls" mod. I am currently facing an urgent issue, and I apologize for my rudeness. I don't know whom to ask for help regarding this, and I am not sure if it's appropriate to bring it up here, but this matter is very important to all Chinese FS25 players. Due to the limit on the number of Chinese characters in the Farming Simulator 25 game, some Chinese language mods cannot display certain Chinese characters. After my investigation, I found that the issue is due to the "defaultFont.dds" and "defaultFont.font" files lacking enough Chinese characters. They are located in the Farming Simulator 25sharedfont directory. I don’t know how to expand font files like these to add Chinese characters, and I wonder if you could help me. Below is the warning log information caused by the missing Chinese characters.

2025-12-17 11:29:57.004 dataS/character/animals/wild/stork/stork.i3d (20.14 ms)
2025-12-17 11:30:12.502 Warning: Character '28895' not found in texture font (2025-12-17 11:30:12.502 烟2025-12-17 11:30:12.502 in 2025-12-17 11:30:12.502 烟草2025-12-17 11:30:12.502 ).
2025-12-17 11:30:12.767 Warning: Character '34224' not found in texture font (2025-12-17 11:30:12.767 薰2025-12-17 11:30:12.767 in 2025-12-17 11:30:12.767 薰衣草2025-12-17 11:30:12.767 ).
2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 Warning: Character '33500' not found in texture font (2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 苜2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 in 2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 紫花苜蓿2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 ).
2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 Warning: Character '34047' not found in texture font (2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 蓿2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 in 2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 紫花苜蓿2025-12-17 11:30:13.998 ).
2025-12-17 11:30:19.190 Warning: Character '20329' not found in texture font (2025-12-17 11:30:19.190 佩2025-12-17 11:30:19.190 in 2025-12-17 11:30:19.190 斯佩耳特小麦2025-12-17 11:30:19.190 ).
2025-12-17 11:36:39.870 dataS/character/animals/wild/deer/deerAdult.i3d (27.52 ms)

[GtX-Andy]

Hello and thank you for the Christmas wishes and warm greeting. 😸

You are more than welcome, I was more than happy to include the translations and thankful to '机器猫' for submitting them,

It is disappointing to hear that some of the included characters do not display correctly, unfortunately this has been an issue with other languages also for a little while and something that would be great to see fixed in the Base Game. ☹️

I have not studied the Font files I am sorry so updating these is not something I could help with at this time sorry.

Question 1:

Do you experience missing characters or warnings about these when using no mods (Vanilla Game Only)?

If Yes then this would be something worth reporting to Giants using their Bug Tracker. See this forum post for reference 👉 HERE

Question 2:

With regards Easy Development Controls and the texts currently not displaying correctly or producing warnings when using
Simplified Chinese, is there an alternative way these could be written using only the characters included by Giants Software in the base game?

If these texts can be changed in this way and yourself or someone else could provided the changes here I will happily include them in an update.

Take care and a very Merry Christmas 🎄

[NongDeChuanRen]

Thank you for your reply, and also for your Christmas wishes.

Answer 1:
If it's the base game, there are no warnings about missing characters in the logs. These warnings only appear after some new crops or new products, which are not part of the base game, are loaded. After seeing these warning messages, I followed your suggested method to submit a bug report to the Giant team. However, it has been several months since I submitted the report, and I still haven't received a response from the Giant team. It's possible that the format of my report was incorrect. I am preparing to submit another report and hope for good news.

Answer 2:
The method you shared is also a good approach to solving the problem, but each Chinese character has its own meaning. If they are replaced, it might cause misunderstandings for the readers and may not achieve the desired effect. Although there has been no progress on the issue, I still appreciate your reply.