[Bug 42238] Various UltraISO UI elements do not have smooth fonts

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42238

--- Comment #4 from Andrew Udvare <audvare at gmail.com> ---
The developers forced MS Sans Serif. They use SystemParametersInfo() to get the
metrics on how to draw the font. They use CreateFontIndirect() to get the GDI
object structure for more metric data. Weird since it is just plain old MS Sans
Serif at 8 point.

On a side note, the app is written in Delphi and appears to use the VCL for
rendering including text. This seems to mean no ClearType without extra work:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/921249/font-smoothing-in-delphi . So the
developers are not doing it.

Hacky workaround: unpack binary, hex edit:

4d532053616e732053600 ("MS Sans Serif\0")

to

5365676f6520554900000 ("Segoe UI\0\0\0\0\0\0")

Still confusing though because in this case, it must be that fontconfig steps
in before Wine and smooths out Segoe UI but refuses to present a smooth version
of MS Sans Serif (no hints in the font?).

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