http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325
--- Comment #31 from Lei Zhang thestig@google.com 2008-12-10 13:35:18 --- Let's not mess around with native comctl32. All we need to reproduce this problem is the FoxTrader installer. [1]
I'm using Ubuntu with Chinese fonts installed. I created my .wine dir with LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 and ran all other wine commands with the same $LANG. Wine notepad works out of the box here.
So, run the installer and look at the initial "Wise Installation" splash screen and the first dialog page.
On the initial splash screen The "Wise Installation" string contains Chinese characters. They show up, but as funny characters, which is not the same problem as incorrect font linking, where they either don't show up, or show up as a box. With the suggested patch, the characters show up for me.
On the first dialog page, everything showed up as boxes for me without font linking. Most of the text uses a font called 宋体, and the bottom buttons use MS Sans Serif. If I set up font linking for 宋体 and MS Sans Serif, then everything except the buttons show up correctly. To get the buttons to show up correctly, I had to apply my patch. [2]
[1] http://down1.patiosoft.com/patiosoft/SetupFTDB.NoHis.EXE [2] http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-December/065543.html