in both the settings menu, and the scenarios menu, no text is displayed in the areas that are actually important.
here is some screenshots of the scenario viewer. note that the specific scenarios can still be selected. http://imgur.com/a/cd86p
here is a player.log, KSP.log, buildID.txt, and a hardinfo containing everything but networking and benchmarks. https://gist.github.com/mralext20/bca46fa27a50211ca6367fe9acb9db8e
here is the output of pacman -Qs ttf:
local/ttf-dejavu 2.35-1
Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of characters
local/ttf-freefont 20120503-4
Set of free outline fonts covering the Unicode character set
local/ttf-indic-otf 0.2-8
Indic Opentype Fonts collection
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-10
Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/ttf-noto-fonts-ib 20150929-1 (infinality-bundle-fonts)
Google Noto fonts.
local/ttf-roboto-ibx 2.0-6 (infinality-bundle-fonts-extra)
Modern sans-serif font family designed by Christian Robertson and introduced with Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Basic, condensed and slab variants included.