http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325
--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2008-12-04 01:04:57 --- Sorry, I'm not providing support via e-mail.
Thank you for a quick reply. Could you please tell me:
- where can I find info about setting "font-links" and check my
locale in wine? I have found a LOT via google, but all does not work... I think my wine locale should be following my Linux locale, is that true?
- Even if we can use font links to solve this problem, isn't it
simpler to apply the patch? Or, alternatively, wine shall do the font-link automatically if it detect thats necessary (e.g. user is using a Chinese Windows...)?
I apply the patch for every wine release, and I think it is not very friendly for average users, either to do the font-link for a new wine installation (.wine) or to do the patch themselves.
I am sorry to reply you via email, since I feel I need to do more home work for discussion/fixing of this problem. I hope you can give me a little guidance, like WHY this patch is considered not correct? What is the guideline to submit an accpetable patch etc.
Just searching for "font linking" in the Wine bugzilla should give you enough information. This bug is most likely a duplicate of either bug 13829 or bug 15692.
The patches like you've attached touch a very important part of the gdi32 code, and at the very least a test case confirming that the change is correct is required.