http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25717
--- Comment #51 from Vincent Povirk madewokherd@gmail.com 2011-03-17 15:57:41 CDT --- Possibly relevant: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307208, see "How to Display Adjacent Text" section near the end.
We don't do any of the crap listed there, and reading about it fills me with hate. But I'll have to think about how we can alter the glyph positions to match native, along with supporting complex scripts and DrawDriverString/MeasureDriverString.