[Bug 48783] Wine Tahoma is missing many glyphs

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48783

--- Comment #6 from Nguyen Chinh Huu <huupoke12 at gmail.com> ---
After some testing and inspection, I have some questions:

1. I noticed that that W10's shipped Tahoma is not fully metric-compatible with
the Tahoma in Wine (Wine Tahoma only fully metric-compatible with the Tahoma in
the tahoma verb which can be downloaded from winetricks). Why MS not keeping it
fully metric-compatible with the previous version of Tahoma?

2. As I see, W10's Tahoma doesn't contain bitmap glyphs. Is it necessary for
Wine Tahoma to have bitmap glyphs? And I thought that the .sfd are the source
files for fonts, but Wine tahoma.sfd only contains bitmap fonts, and the vector
fonts is only in tahoma.ttf. So if I want to contribute to Wine Tahoma (vector
font),
I have to create a git commit for a binary file (tahoma.ttf)? I don't think
using git to track binary files is a good idea. And do I have to also to make
change to the same glyphs for the bitmap font?

3. As I see, the vector font tahoma.ttf is based on Bitstream Vera fonts (the
bitmap font tahoma.sfd seems to be also somewhat to be based on it, but many
glyphs are self-created?). So if I want to contribute more glyphs to Wine
Tahoma, is it fine if I take the glyphs from DejaVu fonts (DejaVu changes seems
to be in a public domain and another one license for some glyphs which is very
similar with Bitstream Vera font license).

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