As well as freetype, OpenTTD 0.5 added fontconfig as an optional dependency. This is currently automatic, and should probably be made a hard dependency like fontconfig. It also has iconv support, but this is only for converting filenames from the filesystem charset to utf-8. It's not usually needed, and enabling it can cause some problems if the user's LANG doesn't match the filesystem's encoding (see http://bugs.openttd.org/task/725 for an example). A couple of minor things as well - RELEASE doesn't need to be set as it will default to the right value, and docs/console.txt doesn't exist any more. I've attached a patch to the ebuild that should fix all of these.
Created attachment 117647 [details, diff] Patch for openttd-0.5.1.ebuild
Cool, thanks for the patch! I reviewed and added it to portage.