Removing the .godot directory will reset the font fallbacks, causing an error if the project uses translation.

[MarioMS08]

Godot version

Godot Engine v4.1.1.stable.flathub

System information

Godot v4.1.1.stable (bd6af8e) - Freedesktop SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) - Vulkan (Compatibility) - AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.42, 5.15.0-78-generic) () - AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8 Threads)

Issue description

Removing .godot with a font with fallbacks will cause an error on the first run if the project is using a translation, and the main scene (or other scenes?) contains node that using a translation key.

The next run will simply run the project without fallbacks for the font.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a new project with at least two font files, with one of the font support the language of the translation.
• Set one of the fonts as the fallback for the other.
• Add translation in the project.
• Make a scene that using such translation.
• Run the scene.
• Quit the project and delete the .godot directory.
• Reopen the project.

For the Minimal reproduction project below

• Because the project doesn't have the .godot directory, you'll get an error the first time you run it.
• Reload the project, then add NanumGothicCoding-Bold.ttf as the fallback font for FreeMono.ttf.
• Run the scene.
• Optional: Reload the project to see if there is an error and run the scene.
• Exit the project and delete the .godot directory.
• Reopen the project.

Minimal reproduction project

Godot Font Fallback Test.zip (Updated)

[MarioMS08]

Updated.

[hhyyrylainen]

I think I can confirm this bug, I just did a reimport and seemingly all of my font files with fallbacks got edited to remove the fallbacks and the UIDs of the files changed. I was trying to fix a problem with font files refusing to load even with correct paths by reimporting everything, but that's probably not a pre-requisite to trigger this issue.

[Hilderin]

Fixed by #92667