http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12377
--- Comment #27 from Stefan Ziel stefan.ziel@terra.com.br 2009-04-20 10:58:40 --- one more information - the exact reason is:
wine expects a symbol font to have bit 31 set (which is true in nearly all symbol fonts) and windows does not.
My patch tells wine not to matter about those bits in CHARSETINFO if the requested font type is Symbol.