http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5978
--- Comment #19 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2008-03-02 01:57:41 --- (In reply to comment #18)
I'm not using fontforge. These fonts are the ones included with wine and have your name in the Copyright notice. I've been using a hex editor to examine coure.fon (which works) and vgasys.fon (which doesn't work). They are very similar in size & structure so it will be some minor little thing. Perhaps the programs are attempting to set a point size which is supported in one font but not the other.
vgasys.fon is supposed to contain bitmaps only for 1 point size, that's true for Windows version as well. If you could figure out what makes the builtin font unusable that would be great.
Just to clarify things, if you run 'wine notepad' and launch the choose font dialog, does "System" font display there, also which point sizes are listed for native and builtin vgasys.fon?