[Bug 20456] Multiple applications have text rendering issues with 'Courier New' font using distro provided Liberation fonts (cut off/partial text display)(FEAR, AoE 3, Supreme Commander, fasmw 1.x)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20456

Mingye Wang <arthur200126 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #51 from Mingye Wang <arthur200126 at gmail.com> ---
As a retired packager I am very concerned by the approach used by the currently
staged patches, i.e. by providing a rebranded Liberation Mono as Courier New
similar to wine's Tahoma. Doing so is extremely unnecessary as almost every
distro has those fonts.

This bug is not a problem of the "Liberation fonts", but a problem caused by
trying to use "Liberation Sans" in place of "Courier New" when the correct
substitution is "Liberation Mono". This issue can be trivially fixed by either
a new `HKCU\Software\Wine\Fonts\Replacements` default, or (to solve similar
future problems with e.g. Calibri and Cambria altogether) by more properly
respecting what `fontconfig` says.

I hope that other solutions are investigated before wine goes on this bundling
path. The sheer size of the proposed patch for #13829 should already be a red
flag.

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