https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53019
Bug ID: 53019 Summary: MusicBee: inconsistent CJK/non-Latin support with Tahoma, no support on any other font. Product: Wine Version: 7.7 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: trivial Priority: P2 Component: activeds Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: v_winebugs@outlook.com Distribution: ArchLinux
Created attachment 72386 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=72386 All of the screenshots showcasing the bug, in a .tar.gz file.
Tested on wine 7.7 as well as wine-staging 7.7. Running Arch Linux. Font replacements installed via winetricks - allfonts + fakechinese, fakejapanese, fakekorean.
When Tahoma is selected as the default font, which is default on new installations of MusicBee in WINE, MusicBee displays CJK and symbols very inconsistently. 新しい日の誕生 by ２８１４ is a good example as not only is Japanese text used, but the artist name uses full-width characters which comes under the symbol part of this bug.
The artist and album names are displayed just fine on the left sidebar, tag editor, track listing panel and mostly on the playing track panel. Generally, if there is no formatting on the text, it is displayed. However in the Music Explorer view, as well as playlist views such as Album & Tracks, Albums and Artists, squares are put in the text's place, typically on the portions meant to be formatted like headings (bolded, increased font size).
When any other font is used, whether included by the WINE prefix or brought in from the distro, absolutely no font is displayed for those symbols whatsoever. Everywhere that renders fonts on MusicBee will not render any non-Latin symbols whatsoever.
In either case, the title on the Playing Tracks panel does not display any non-Latin symbols whatsoever. I've checked the formatting and used the Regular variant of Tahoma. Changing the others on the Playing Tracks panel to Bold will result in squares, changing the size is fine.
A workaround is to use a font that has all of the scripts needed for use, such as WenQuanYi Micro Hei for Japanese, Korean (on the font picker as Hangul and Hangul(Johab)) and Chinese (CHINESE_GB2312 and CHINESE_BIG5). As long as it has the relevant scripts, the symbols will be displayed, however since most fonts don't include CJK scripts, WINE/MusicBee has trouble displaying them when those fonts are picked. To make matters worse, due to .NET limitations, MusicBee can only use TrueType fonts, and some fonts result in MusicBee complaining that it's not a valid TrueType font, even though it only displays TrueType fonts in the font picker (Yu Gothic UI was used for this example).
When searching for related bugs, I came across this: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34298#c5 Adding a font that works to the registry changes basically nothing. MusicBee still has trouble consistently rendering CJK and other symbols.