[Bug 37615] New: wineconsole: user backend won't detect font -> white boxes

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37615

Bug ID: 37615
           Summary: wineconsole: user backend won't detect font -> white
                    boxes
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.31
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 50064
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=50064
wineconsole.log

Wine compiled without ncurses.

When wineconsole is started, it shows white boxes instead of font. Log with
WINEDEBUG=+wineconsole attached.

This code is from 2002:
programs/wineconsole/user.c : line 442
/* FIXME:
* the current freetype engine (at least 2.0.x with x <= 8) and its
implementation
* in Wine don't return adequate values for fixed fonts
* In Windows, those fonts are expected to return the same value for
*  - the average width
*  - the largest width
*  - the width of all characters in the font
* This isn't true in Wine. As a temporary workaround, we get as the width of
the
* cell, the width of the first character in the font, after checking that all
* characters in the font have the same width (I hear paranoia coming)
* when this gets fixed, the code should be using tm.tmAveCharWidth
* or tm.tmMaxCharWidth as the cell width.
*/

I tried comment font checking, then output is better, but font isn't
fixed-width (still smaller issue than white boxes instead of font).

In Ubuntu 12.04 is freetype 2.4.8, so IMHO we can rely on 2.4 series + ncurses
is default, so we can go ahead and fix it.

[Bug 37615] wineconsole: user backend won't detect font -> white boxes

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37615

David Heidelberg (okias)  changed:

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[Bug 37615] wineconsole: user backend won't detect font -> white boxes

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37615

--- Comment #1 from David Heidelberg (okias)  ---
So I investigated more and it's not so bad.

It's not directly related to FIXME code (which could be fixed, but it doesn't
matter).

It start go trough list of fonts and on first place it hits Ahem font from
Droid font suite. Trick is, this font is exactly (at least as I see in preview)
made from white blocks.

So this brings me to idea, could there be some default preferred font?

[Bug 37615] wineconsole: user backend won't detect font -> white boxes

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37615

--- Comment #2 from Janne  ---
Created attachment 77702
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=77702
wineconsole

Tested with Wine 9.0
In my test there were no white boxes on console.
Text was shown normally.