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



On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:23:41AM +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> > > 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.
> 

+1 here. Currently debian and all other major distributions use unicode
locale, provides applications translations to a lot of non English
languages. And setting font that has no non-latin characters as default is
not so good idea, since there is easy-to-use workaround. As for me, it
should be at least described in README.Debian.

-- 
WBR, Dmitry

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