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Re: Bug#467610: Broken built-in tahoma font in new wine (semicolon sign for non-latin characters)



На Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:16:26 +0100
Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> записано:

> severity 467610 normal
> forwarded 467610 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10025
> stop
> 
> Alexander Gerasiov skrev:
> > In recent wine releases they include tahoma font in wine:
> > root@vice:/etc# update-dlocatedb 
> > root@vice:/etc# dlocate tahoma
> > libwine: /usr/share/wine/fonts/tahomabd.ttf
> > libwine: /usr/share/wine/fonts/tahoma.ttf
> > 
> > But this font is awful: it lacks support of codepages other than
> > latin (Cyrillic, Greak etc). Instead of such glyphs it shows
> > semicolon sign.
> > 
> > I don't know exaclty why did upstream create this font, but just
> > removin' it will help.
> 
> They created it because many Windows applications need it, as it's a 
> standard Windows font. There's no way it's going to be removed. But 
> adding Cyrillic and stuff to Tahoma is of course on their (very long) 
> todo list. I'm marking this bug as forwarded to the most relevant 
> upstream bug.
> 
> If you really don't want your applications to use Tahoma, you can
> always try to edit the [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows 
> NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontSubstitutes] section in ~/.wine/system.reg

Most Windows applications work fine without Tahoma. They use Verdana
instead and everybody are happy. But with Tahoma large part of
non-latin1 users caught serious regression with this release. So
I'm sure, that you should disable this font by default.

-- 
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