Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Wed, 26/3/08, Huw Davies huw@codeweavers.com wrote:
<snipped> >> If ukai is affected, I would suspect uming (also from > Arphic) >> would be the same? and how many non-english fonts one > want to >> "work-around" like this? > I've not seen any problems with uming. Most > 'non-english' fonts will > work fine. There's something very specific about ukai > that causes > native gdiplis to have problems. > >>> Actually I've just attached a hack to the > bug, try that >>> instead. >> Thanks - but I also have uming, and a a fair number of > other fonts >> shipped from fedora for non-english. (over 100). > Please try the patch and report back.
Yes, your patch works alright - it is just ukai and nothing else. I'll put it on the bug report as well. Ukai (or rather, the original Arphic kai font) was the first commercial quality chinese font released under an open license, so you are going to have a lot of people - 20% of the world is Chinese, and also linux is rather more officially popular in China due to licensing/cost/idealological reasons and some non-chinese will install "everything" - being affected by this. I don't know if it is ukai-specific or any Arphic kai derivatives, but if it affects any Arphic kai derivatives, filtering by font name as your patch did won't be effective.
Looks like a time to start blacklisting fonts then. If the font is invalid and does not work even on windows yet it is available in the system - that's the only thing Wine can do. Or just contact all distros to remove it. Or request packagers to refuse installing Wine if said font found in the system.
Vitaliy.