New subject: [Bug 53019] MusicBee: inconsistent CJK/non-Latin support with Tahoma, no support on any other font.

19 May 2022


      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.
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[Bug 53019] New: MusicBee: inconsistent CJK/non-Latin support with Tahoma, no support on any other font.