http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34446
--- Comment #13 from Artem S. Tashkinov t.artem@mailcity.com 2013-09-05 02:43:11 CDT --- (In reply to comment #12)
The problem is that you have 2 tahoma.ttf installed: one is Wine built-in /opt/wine/bin/../share/wine/fonts//tahoma.ttf another is /usr/share/fonts/BASE/tahoma.ttf
With English locale the built-in one gets *replaced* by native because its full name "Tahoma"/"Regular" matches but version is higher.
With Russian locale native tahoma.ttf is *added* to the font list because its native localized full name "Tahoma"/"обычный" doesn't match full name of the built-in font "Tahoma"/"Regular". Then built-in font gets used because it happens to be earlier in the fonts list.
I'd suggest to remove native tahoma.ttf/tahomabd.ttf in order to avoid this kind of a confusion.
This sounds like a Wine bug to me - why Wine even tries to load builtin Tahoma font which is known to look worse than a Core TTF version of this font (which is found to be present and functional on my system)?
Actually I remember erasing ttf fonts from $prefix/share/wine/fonts a year ago, but since then I've forgotten about this trick. Thank you for reminding me.