http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6236
------- Additional Comments From the3dfxdude@gmail.com 2006-20-09 20:59 ------- James did you even look at the screen shots? He correctly compiled wine with working fonts. The weird symbols he is talking about in the first screenshot is the from the Marlett font that Wine built. The second screen shot is a font from the Bitstream Vera font, which is on practically every distro. I was able to overrride Marlett with Vera two ways, by copying it into the \windows\fonts folder or by removing all wine built fonts.
To get a more readable font instead of Vera, don't copy Vera in to the \windows\fonts folder, and just remove Marlett from /usr/share/wine/fonts, keeping the rest intact. I think it chooses the System font then...
What the problem is here is Wine's preference of Marlett, which cannot display the correct characters. The order goes something like this:
1. Choose a font based on registry keys (there are none by default) 2. Choose a font from \windows\fonts (there are none installed here by default) 3. Choose a font from /usr/share/wine/fonts (prefers marlett) 4. Choose a font from based X font paths (varies according to settings)
This is not simply a distro problem.