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

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Thu Jun 5 05:59:01 CDT 2008


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





--- Comment #18 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2008-06-05 05:59:01 ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> > Does Wine notepad show japanese fonts in menus and in the text?
> No. I never get Japanese menus,

That's an indication of a not working Japanese locale.

> I have specifically written this application to test the functionality. As far
> as I can tell I have not hardcoded any font but you can examine the source to
> be sure.

Where is the source?

> > > 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.
> > 
> What is enough then?

I've said it many times already: font name and glyph ranges.

> If it is necessary to substitute the MS fonts to some fonts that exist I could
> do that in registry and Wine could perhaps do that automagically if at least
> some Mincho and Gothic fonts exist.

Probably, but that's not a general solution.

> Still even if those fonts exist there is apparently something missing as the
> application doesn't display correctly anyway.
> I can hack the registry to hardcode all system fonts to Japanese fonts but that
> breaks if I start an application that requires a different locale.

Wine updates system fonts on locale change, and uses "MS UI Gothic" for
japanese locale. "MS UI Gothic" should be manually mapped to some existing
font with comparable properties.


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