http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8988
--- Comment #21 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2007-08-13 10:00:03 --- Heh, leave it to me to leave out some of the most important info. Yes, in wine 0.9.43, the characters show up fine. I'll try to test sound a bit later today. Assuming that's not an issue, I'd say this bug is fixed.
default_357-line@yahoo.de, have you tried with a clean .wine directory? Try checking your drivers/X.org configuration.