[Bug 16629] New: Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

Summary: Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.9
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Win32 console apps dont display graphic chars properly;
here are some screenshots to show what I mean:
app on Win32:
http://www.gknw.net/test/wine/rdb_grafic_win32.png
app on Wine:
http://www.gknw.net/test/wine/rdb_grafic_wine.png

Another Win32 console app which shows up same font issue is rconip;
for testing self you can download it from here:
http://rconip.sourceforge.net/
if you launch it with 'wine rconip.exe' the first screen already shows this
same issue ...

I checked also wine registry settings and found there some probably strange
things which at least dont comply with Wine docu; f.e.:
localhost\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\FontSize is set to 0x00f008 although docu
at:
http://www.winehq.org/docs/winedev-guide/x3500 - Table 8-5. Console registry
settings
says its default is 0x0c08; also from this docu the FaceName should have no
default while my registry has it set to 'Fixedsys'.
Manually changing FaceName or FontSize doesnt make any difference, and afer
wine or wineconsole has run the original values are automatically restored.

It somehow seems to me that perhaps signed chars (7-bit) are used instead of
unsigned chars (8-bit) which kills all graphic chars ...??

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #1 from Andre Wisplinghoff   2008-12-26 11:43:22 ---
Created an attachment (id=18199)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=18199)
rconip.exe running on wine from git

I tried rconip with several wine versions but it looks here (see attachment).
which characters are corrupted on your system?

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #2 from Guenter   2008-12-27 13:24:13 ---
Hi Andre,
while your screenshot looks perfect, I get this:
http://www.gknw.net/test/wine/rconip_wine.png
running Wine 1.1.9 on SuSE 11.1 (KDE4.1.3) and 0.9.60 on SuSE 10.3 (KDE 3.5.7)
- both show up same; wine installed with Yast packet manager ...
so any idea what goes wrong with my installations?

thanks for looking into this!

Günter.

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #3 from Guenter   2008-12-27 20:20:42 ---
Hi Andre,
I think I've now nailed down the issue to be a font one....
I tested a bit on my SuSE 10.3 box with KDE 3.5.7 / Wine 0.9.60, and when I
change the font with right-click on the app from Fixedsys to DejaVu Sans Mono,
or Andale Mono then the display is mostly correct - means there are few places
with server screens where trailing characters are displayed which are not
displayed when running on native win32, but that is really only a minor issue.
The menus are displayed correctly. So the issue seems to be that the Fixedsys
stuff is somehow broken; I also verified that all vga*.fon mentioned in the
wine registry are in place...
To make sure that its not from my SUSE installs I also just checked with a
Knoppix DVD with pre-installed Wine (Debian-based, KDE 3.5.5, Kernel 2.6.19,
WIne 0.9.12), but exacly same issue with the menus; strange though that on this
OS it didnt matter what font I selected - always same...
hopefully this might give you some clues about what goes wrong with console
apps...
Let me know if you need any other info, or if I can test anything else.

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #4 from Guenter   2008-12-27 22:24:44 ---
and some more info now:
- on the Knoppix-Debian box after filling the empty windows/fonts folder
rconip.exe now displays 100% correct! The other app rdb.exe still failed, but
that was due to old Wine version 0.9.12; this apps needs to be started with
wineconsole, and it seems that older Wine versions default to --backend=curses;
after I used the option --backend=user rdb.exe now also displays 99% perfect
(only the few trailing chars remain)
- on both SuSE 10.3 and 11.1 both rconip.exe and rdb.exe dont work by default;
when I added the fonts I found that SuSE uses windows/Fonts - dont know if Wine
is here case-sensitive, or if that changed now with later versions, just want
to mention it; did also rename the folder to all lowercase as it appears on the
Knoppix-Debian box, but that didnt change things. Now when I manually configure
both apps to use Andale Mono font instead of Fixedsys then both apps display
same as on the Knoppix-Debian box: rconip.exe 100% correct, and rdb.exe 99%.
Will tomorrow make some more screenshots to show you the remaining issue.
Summary:
- Knoppix-Debian seems to work out-of-the-box (after adding M$ fonts), and
selects automatically Lucida Console font.
- SuSE needs manual tweak of font set to Andale Mono; Lucida Console doesnt
appear in the config menu of the apps.

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #5 from Austin English   2009-06-30 11:41:30 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.24 or newer) wine?

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Frédéric Delanoy   2009-07-20 18:45:27 ---
Still a problem with 1.1.26.
Tested with midnight commander
(http://freenet-homepage.de/franco.bez/mc/mc_95_nt-4.1.36.zip)

Ran it with wineconsole with default user backend

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #7 from Guenter   2009-07-20 21:18:36 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this still an issue in current (1.1.24 or newer) wine?

Yes; tested 1.1.24 on Suse 11.1 x86_64 with a freshly created user account, and
still same issue with rdb.exe and rcpnip.exe.
Also tested with midnight commander (as Frédéric Delanoy just reported), and
looks pretty much for same issue - once I manually switch to Andale Mono font
it looks fine. Probably it makes more sense to ship an own FixedSys font which
is known to work with Wine instead of using a Linux system one which seems not
reliable on all Linux distros.

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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--- Comment #8 from Austin English   2010-07-23 15:49:50 ---
This is your friendly reminder  that there has been no bug activity for a year.
Is this still an issue in current (1.2 or newer) wine

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #9 from Frédéric Delanoy   2010-07-23 16:37:58 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> This is your friendly reminder  that there has been no bug activity for a year.
> Is this still an issue in current (1.2 or newer) wine

mc looks nice in 1.2.
I can't test the program of the original reporter, though.

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16629

--- Comment #10 from Guenter   2010-07-23 17:49:49 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> This is your friendly reminder  that there has been no bug activity for a year.
> Is this still an issue in current (1.2 or newer) wine

I first need to get a box ready with 1.2 before I can test that gimme some days
for that, currently swamped with outher stuff :) ...
Does 1.2 now ship with its own font as I suggested?

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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                URL|                            |http://sourceforge.net/proj
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Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #11 from Frédéric Delanoy  2011-05-31 12:45:06 CDT ---
Confirmed for rconip in 1.3.21

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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--- Comment #12 from [e-mail] 2013-04-23 15:19:23 CDT ---
No update for 900 days. Is this still an issue in 1.5.28 or higher or should
this be closed as abandoned ?

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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--- Comment #13 from Guenter  2013-04-23 16:08:31 CDT ---
Created attachment 44274
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=44274
Screenshots from "wineconsole rdb.exe"

[Bug 16629] Win32 console doesnt display graphic chars properly

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--- Comment #14 from Guenter  2013-04-23 16:14:56 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> No update for 900 days. Is this still an issue in 1.5.28 or higher or should
> this be closed as abandoned ?

I've just tested again with wine 1.4 on OpenSuSE 12.2, and the issue is still
same: it doesnt work by default, but it does work with the right font. As I
said before it is a pure font issue, and the fact that the Linux distros change
their shipping fonts every now and then shows that my recommendation to Wine
for shipping your own font still stands. Now with OpenSuSE 12.2 there's no
longer the Andale Mono, but DejaVu Sans Mono still is available and works then
fine. Find attached the screenshots, and also the error message displayed in
the console at start of wineconsole that the font is invalid.
I'd say we can close the bug since its more a distro problem than a problem
with Wine itself; however you can avoid this trouble for the average user if
you ship your own font which is well-known to work with textconsole-based
programs; perhaps DejaVu Sans Mono is well suited for this due to its free
licence.
Will close the bug.

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Guenter  changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Guenter  2013-04-23 16:17:15 CDT ---
Closed bug since its a pure font issue which depends on what the Linux distro
ships. When selecting DejaVu Sans Mono all seems to work fine.

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Frédéric Delanoy  changed:

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         Resolution|FIXED                       |INVALID

--- Comment #16 from Frédéric Delanoy  2013-04-23 16:51:24 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Closed bug since its a pure font issue which depends on what the Linux distro
> ships. When selecting DejaVu Sans Mono all seems to work fine.

Closing as invalid then (not a bug in Wine)

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Austin English  changed:

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         Resolution|INVALID                     |UPSTREAM

--- Comment #17 from Austin English  2013-04-23 18:01:28 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > Closed bug since its a pure font issue which depends on what the Linux distro
> > ships. When selecting DejaVu Sans Mono all seems to work fine.
>
> Closing as invalid then (not a bug in Wine)

UPSTREAM is more appropriate.