[Bug 13600] allow using glyphs from mlutiple fonts in font substitution

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13600





--- Comment #16 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2008-06-05 04:57:28 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> So I run LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine testwin.exe which renders expected number of
> characters but the Japanese ones aren't displayed - only spaces or black
> squares are rendered instead.

Does Wine notepad show japanese fonts in menus and in the text?

> The glyph ranges should be sufficient. The font name is, of course, completely
> different. But you cannot expect that fonts named MS Mincho, MS Gothic or MS UI
> Gothic would be installed on all wine setups. These fonts are only available
> with Windows and cannot be normally obtained separately, unlike the MS Core
> Fonts.

If a Windows application hard codes font names (which is the case for most
Windows applications) missing necessary fonts is fatal.

> However, most Japanese font packages provide two font variants that contain
> Mincho and Gothic at the end of their font name.

That's not enough.


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