http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2696
------- Additional Comments From dclark@akamail.com 2005-09-05 13:24 ------- Stock RH 7.3 comes with an old version of Freetype which may cause problems with Wine's TrueType rendering, though I thought that Wine would automatically detect this and not use the Truetype fonts in that case. There were no messages printed out on the console?
You might want to provide the Version number displayed by: rpm -qi freetype
I'm not sure where you came up with the ~/.fonts directory. I have not heard of that being used in Wine before. You might try setting an environment variable: WINEDEBUG = font and then try running something, and see if any printed messages might give a clue to what is going on.
But of course the best thing is to upgrade from RH 7.3 to something that is not ancient ;)