http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629
--- Comment #14 from Guenter info@gknw.de 2013-04-23 16:14:56 CDT --- (In reply to comment #12)
No update for 900 days. Is this still an issue in 1.5.28 or higher or should this be closed as abandoned ?
I've just tested again with wine 1.4 on OpenSuSE 12.2, and the issue is still same: it doesnt work by default, but it does work with the right font. As I said before it is a pure font issue, and the fact that the Linux distros change their shipping fonts every now and then shows that my recommendation to Wine for shipping your own font still stands. Now with OpenSuSE 12.2 there's no longer the Andale Mono, but DejaVu Sans Mono still is available and works then fine. Find attached the screenshots, and also the error message displayed in the console at start of wineconsole that the font is invalid. I'd say we can close the bug since its more a distro problem than a problem with Wine itself; however you can avoid this trouble for the average user if you ship your own font which is well-known to work with textconsole-based programs; perhaps DejaVu Sans Mono is well suited for this due to its free licence. Will close the bug.