[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

--- Comment #57 from Erich E. Hoover <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mingye Wang from comment #56)
> Thanks for the explanation about .NET apps like Unity, Erich. I do agree
> that it's probably most convenient to ship the fonts by wine itself now. Is
> it really necessary to unpack the entire fontforge project into the source
> tree though? We are unlikely to do any change besides the metadata... right?

At the moment you only have to do that if you're going to rebuild the fonts,
which is true of both wine and wine-staging.  If we were to build a tool that
just takes a system font and "renames" it then that tool might be able to be a
lot simpler, but wine in general will still need fontforge to build some of the
other fonts we use (not all of wine's fonts are direct replacements with no
changes).

It's also possible that we could use the system-wide fontforge if someone was
willing to upstream the patches we have, there's a number of fontforge
behaviors that result in large diffs (for tiny changes) and our patches disable
those features (timestamps, spurious spaces that get added to the metadata,
saving the fontforge "state").  I know that someone got some of our changes
upstreamed about five years ago, but I don't believe that they finished that
effort.  If you're willing to look into it then I'm sure there are a few
packagers that would be happy to be able to use the system-wide fontforge ;)

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