Just in case someone wants a different font or font attribute for
game and chat messages in UrT, today I found out that it's
possible (with a few disadvantages, though):

{ excerpt from http://forums.urbanterror.info/topic/244-urbanterror-ui-font-sizes/page__p__300361#entry300361 }

[...] there is one feature of Mitsubishi's optimized executable
that could mitigate the problem: Unicode support.

It doesn't replace any of the UI fonts, but you can
configure it so that it shows game and chat messages
(Unicode_ChatOutput 1, Unicode_ConsoleOutput 1), then you set
cg_msgHeight and cg_chatHeight to 0 and adjust

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Unicode_Font
Unicode_FontSize
Unicode_PositionX
Unicode_PositionY
Unicode_LineSpace
Unicode_LineSize
Unicode_Color
Unicode_Shadow
Unicode_MessageTime
Unicode_MessageFadeTime
Unicode_Alpha
------ snip ------

to your liking.

Tadaaaaaa!


Pros

• Nearly every font attribute can be configured.
• The lines can be much longer than in original UrT.
• There can be many more lines than in original UrT.
• The position of the message area is freely configurable.
• Unicode support (haven't tested that yet, though).

Cons

• No color support. All text is in the same color. E.g. the
  player names won't be output in their appropriate colors.
• Game and chat messages appear within the same area.
• Old messages disappear/fade away, but the order seems a
  bit random, e.g. not only the top line disappears, but also
  lines in the middle.

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What good is unicode support if many other players don't have it. I smell possible problems when you type some 日本語 into chat and others see buggy undecipherable text even if they could read the language written on the paper.

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ssh natirips@*.255.255.255 sudo chown -R natirips /

This phenomenon exists for quite some time now, I've seen a lot of messages
with German umlauts replaced by ".".

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