http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17723
--- Comment #4 from ventieldopje@gmail.com 2009-07-15 10:48:15 --- (In reply to comment #3)
Confirmed using wine-1.1.25 on Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" x86_64.
You can still login/use the last.fm scrobbler by deleting all but the first of the strange letters. The first letter is the actual character you pressed on your keyboard.
Yeh but it gets quite a bit harder for entering your password lol :P