On 01/03/2011 03:44 PM, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
Elad, an Hebrew user suggests:
In several Wine apps Hebrew is displayed as square glyphs since there are no builting Hebrew glyphs in Wine's font (bug #23537).
The question is why does Wine use the internal font as the default? The easier solution would be to use the "system" fonts as configured in fontconfig. Windows can have a custom font as well so it shouldn't cause and difficulty. This way we won't have to look for a font editing specialist that will add glyphs to wine's fonts. This problem can affect many languages as well, not just Hebrew, that lacks the required glyphs. Using the fonts from fontconfig might solve the problem and will lead to a better integreation. The fonts in Wine apps will look just like the fonts used by the rest of the apps in the system.
Kind regards, YaronShahrabani
<Hebrew translator>
Yes, using fontconfig for font substitution is something Wine's needed for a while, similar issues exist for CJK fonts.
What font does Windows use for Hebrew text? Ideally we could link to a free metric-compatible replacement (even if we didn't ship it with Wine); in lieu of fontconfig substitution manual registry links will be needed however. In Ubuntu I've made similar aliases for CJK fonts so they at least render text; I understand Crossover does something similar as well.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie