http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3842
------- Additional Comments From lamber45@cse.msu.edu 2005-28-11 21:18 ------- Created an attachment (id=1456) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=1456&action=view) Screenshot from WinZip
This same problem tripped me up recently; I had deleted most fonts from ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, and one of the ones still there was full of Arabic characters at the ASCII codepoints. All installers and programs were unusual because this particular font got picked for practically everything, as seen in the attached screenshot, even though the X window system on this box has thousands of fonts available.