[Bug 59733] New: CJK font fallback prioritizes deprecated SimSun over modern UI fonts

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59733

            Bug ID: 59733
           Summary: CJK font fallback prioritizes deprecated SimSun over
                    modern UI fonts
           Product: Wine
           Version: 11.4
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: fonts
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

When running Wine with Chinese (zh-CN) locale, CJK characters in system UI
fonts (Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, Lucida Sans Unicode, Segoe UI) fall
back to SimSun first if it is installed. SimSun is a deprecated UI
font from Windows XP era that provides poor visual quality compared to
modern alternatives.

This is inconsistent with Windows Vista+ behavior, where:
- Segoe UI (default system font since Vista) has its own SystemLink chain
- Modern CJK UI fonts (YaHei UI, JhengHei UI, Yu Gothic UI, Malgun Gothic)
  are prioritized over legacy fonts

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[Bug 59733] CJK font fallback prioritizes deprecated SimSun over modern UI fonts

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59733

--- Comment #1 from Rafał Mużyło <[e-mail]> ---
Created attachment 80937
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=80937
my old font settings

Just a minor point wrt. screenshots in MR.

My own experiences are relative to ja_JP.locale.

There, I've once been using IPAMona fonts - which weren't great but still good
enough.

But I do recall to that to get the substitution right I needed both a LANG
locale switch, as well as KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Fonts\Replacements
(and its 32bit variant) set up correctly.

IIRC, those screenshots look a bit like a comparison of case with and without
locale switch, but my memory is somewhat hazy....

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