[Bug 13829] Wine does not have CJK fonts

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Tue Jun 2 03:04:03 CDT 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13829





--- Comment #21 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2009-06-02 03:04:01 ---
(In reply to comment #17)

> 1) change current locale / code page to Chinese (for example) and send the
> correct data
> encoding to the windows/dialog boxes. This is compatible since Win98 (at
> least).
> 2) send directly unicode characters to the windows/dialog boxes. This is
> compatible only since Win2000.

Unicode is a native Windows enconding starting from NT 3.1. And once again,
unicode is fully supported by Wine, Wine is not different from NT based
Windows regarding that.

> --------------------------
> - Conclusion
> --------------------------
> Bug 1: When creating a Font the Default charset under Wine doesnt require 
> all glyphs to be shown (on Windows all glyphs are required to be shown
> correctly).

That's not true.

> Bug 2: Non of the default fonts contain all the glyphs. Some fonts contain
> some glyphs and other fonts contain other glyphs. By selecting a specific
> charset it is possibile to view them. But it is not possible to view all
> possible characters using a single Font. Under Windows most of the fonts
> contain all glyphs.

Neither of Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma contain CJK glyphs under Windows.
That's where font links start to work.

All you need under Wine is
1. Use

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