http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10660
--- Comment #49 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2008-03-06 00:22:41 --- (In reply to comment #48)
Well headaches are bad, but brokeneness is worse. Actually there is no solution to this, which can be used as default. This makes the life of a package maintainer more worse
Wine depends on fontforge, and we have any control on this (it even looks much worse taking into account George's stance in the comments above).
To me it's clear that it's the fontforge bug, why this bug stays open is beyond my understanding. I'd suggest to keep reporting this to George, if enough people starts doing that perhaps there is a chance it will be fixed properly.