https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37994
--- Comment #1 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com --- (In reply to e298903 from comment #0)
This bug was introduced in wine version 1.5.20 with the changes to gdi32.dll, in particular the changes to GetTextExtentExPoint.
The issue can be fixed for later versions of wine up to 1.7.35 by reverting to the 1.5.19 gdi32 versions of driver.c, font.c and freetype.c.
Are you referring to this commit http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/bbf3e8621ab2168032979489300122e... ?