[Bug 4449] Invisible fonts in Steam - need a Tahoma compatible font

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4449





------- Additional Comments From dank(a)kegel.com  2007-25-05 09:20 -------
This is still an unsolved issue.
For the record, Tahoma is not quite part of MS's core fonts package,
even if 
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_font.mspx
says it is.
The most freely licensed way to get it that I know of
is from the word 97 viewer.  The easiest way to grab that is
via winetricks, e.g.
  wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
  sh winetricks tahoma

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_font.mspx also 
mentions that Tahoma doesn't include East Asian glyphs, but
links to fonts that do, and describes the registry entry that
controls font linking,
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink 

A few other pages of interest:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/06/18/430507.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/Locales.mspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms903933.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms901081.aspx

That last page seems to indicate that Windows uses different
settings for SystemLink for Korean, Japanese, Chinese etc.
windows.  I don't know how or when, maybe at install, maybe at
boot.  I wonder if Wine also needs to do this.

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