[Bug 13600] Default Wine font setup doesn't always work in japanese locale

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Mon Jun 9 05:50:48 CDT 2008


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


Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #30 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2008-06-09 05:50:48 ---
(In reply to comment #29)

> > > > That's not different from Windows when required font is missing in
> > > > the underlying system.
> > > Yes, but Wine is not about replicating all deficiencies of Windows. It could do
> > > better sometimes ;-)
> > 
> > Predefined API behaviour and philosophical speculations are mutually exclusive
> > things.
> How is substituting fonts in a wine registry entry a predefined API behaviour?

Because Wine behaves the same way as Windows does when a font is missing.

> This is a minimal regedit file that fixes my application:
> REGEDIT4
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
> "System"="MS Shell Dlg"
> [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Software\Wine\Fonts\Replacements]
> "MS UI Gothic"="Sazanami Gothic"

That's exactly which I was talking about - a missing Windows font. This clearly
makes this bug invalid.


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