http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9982
--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2007-12-12 22:35:16 --- (In reply to comment #4)
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Wine patch to add "MS Shell Dlg 2" as Tahoma, and "MS Shell Dlg" as "Microsoft Sans Serif" This is a proper patch that would fix the font issue, unfortunately it doesn't work since wine doesn't have a sans serif by default. As a workaround you can use the sans serif from a windows installation.
"MS Shell Dlg" mapping to "Microsoft Sans Serif" (a TrueType font) was introduced in win2k (I think), pervious versions of Windows has it mapped to "MS Sans Serif" (a bitmap font). Wine has a replacement for "MS Sans Serif" unfortunately recent Huw's patch broke usage of "MS Sans Serif" as a fallback font, see bug 8983, bug 9995.
In general, introducing a font substitution to a font not existing in Wine is a bad idea. If you revert the Huw's patch that has caused a regression in the bugs above does it make things look better?