http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11283
--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2008-01-20 05:03:08 --- http://appdb.winehq.org/commentview.php?iAppId=17&iVersionId=1336&iT... adds that there seems to be a funky font issue in the History palette as of Dec 25th, which was presumably wine-0.9.52.
If this is the same funkyness, maybe the problem is a bit older.