Bug 313581 - wine: Missing font files cause wine to render strange letters
Summary: wine: Missing font files cause wine to render strange letters
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wine
Version: 7
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andreas Bierfert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-01 08:24 UTC by Bjorge Solli
Modified: 2008-06-17 02:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 02:33:17 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
output from command winecfg (23.58 KB, text/plain)
2007-10-08 14:43 UTC, Bjorge Solli
no flags Details
winecfg log of errors (23.57 KB, text/plain)
2007-10-09 11:22 UTC, Bjorge Solli
no flags Details

Description Bjorge Solli 2007-10-01 08:24:41 UTC
Description of problem:
Wine uses some arabic font in it's programs, also configuration. If I downgrade
to the previous version everything is fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wine-0.9.44-1.fc7

How reproducible:
start any wine program from the gnome menu
  
Actual results:
some arabic (?) text/font in menus and messages

Expected results:
english text

Additional info:
If I downgrade to 0.9.36-2.fc7 it works as expected.
Problem is known to have happened to others on the fedora-list,
Message-Id: <200709281833.33194.colin.co.uk>

Comment 1 Andreas Bierfert 2007-10-08 13:55:08 UTC
Please backup your ~/.wine directory (e.g. move it to ~/.wine-save) and run e.g.
winecfg. This will create a new ~/.wine directory. This should solve your problems.

Comment 2 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-08 14:43:03 UTC
Created attachment 219801 [details]
output from command winecfg

No this does not help. See attached file.

Comment 3 Andreas Bierfert 2007-10-08 21:11:01 UTC
Outch... that does not look healthy. I wonder where the libGL errors come from?
Any problems with 3D graphics? I would also ask you to try 0.9.46 from
updates-testing just so that we are on the same version makes it easier for me
to verify bugs...

Comment 4 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-09 11:22:15 UTC
Created attachment 221141 [details]
winecfg log of errors

I haven't gotten 3D to work, but then I haven't tried very hard either. The
updates-testing repo only found a 0.9.45-1.fc7, and I tried this.

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install wine

The repofile uses 
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-testing-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch


I also tried with 
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/


I made sure to remove my .wine-dir first then ran winecfg (winecfg >wine.log2
2>&1) again. The same thing happens, see the logfile.

Comment 5 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-11 07:24:23 UTC
Hm. The attachment did not trigger the status. Hope this will.

Comment 6 Luis Felipe Marzagao 2007-10-12 00:57:56 UTC
Same problem here. Arabic letters everywere, including winecfg app.

Comment 7 Tyson 2007-10-12 02:16:47 UTC
Yep same problem here... I'm not sure what it could be... I installed wine to
use uTorrent and I can't even read it... and this is for F8 

Comment 8 Luis Felipe Marzagao 2007-10-12 02:25:27 UTC
Hello Vang: I don't mean to get out of topic, but have you tried ktorrent. I'm
pretty sure it's way better than utorrent+wine.

Aside from that, it would be nice if this bug was corrected in wine. Cheers

Comment 9 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-17 10:59:02 UTC
If I put some more fonts in /usr/share/wine/fonts (found them on windows) then
it works. How long till you can update the rpm in extras? I have some hundred
machines running fedora 7 and wonder if I should bother packing the files or
just wait for your update.

Comment 10 Luis Felipe Marzagao 2007-10-18 00:24:15 UTC
Great: Adding fonts from windows in /usr/share/wine/fonts indeed solves the problem!

Comment 11 Andreas Bierfert 2007-10-18 07:41:04 UTC
Thats interesting to know. Could you please single out the issue a bit more to
narrow it down to maybe one font that is missing? While I obviously cannot add
windows fonts to the wine package I am quiet stunned by the fact that some fonts
are missing for you. If I know which one is missing there might be a way around
the issue.

Comment 12 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-18 09:31:26 UTC
Actually; Including any one True Type Font (*.ttf) made wine use that font
(added one, tested, removed, tried another one). I did notice however that
marlett.ttf did not help. I tested about 10 ttf before skipping to *.fon.
None(!) of the .fon files helped. Summary: I don't know which of the fonts it
chooses when I add all, but I am sure it is one of the true type fonts.

Comment 13 Bjorge Solli 2007-10-18 09:37:57 UTC
I did find by stracing wine that it tries and fails to find these fonts:
.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/fonts/vga850.fon
.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/fonts/vgafix.fon
.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/fonts/serife.fon

I found serife.fon (and put it in /usr/share/wine/fonts, but that one did not
help. Did not find the other two.

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