http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8338
------- Additional Comments From dmitry@codeweavers.com 2007-09-05 22:21 ------- Once Wine sees a single TTF font installed it uses only TTF and builtin bitmap fonts to render text. It seems that you have only a symbol font, and Wine needs something like Arial installed.
Did you try to install the microsoft core TTF font pack? Did it help?