[Wine] Re: "FixMe GetCharacterPlacementW" on Igor 5.04

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olivier.crauste at gmail.com schreef:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am a new user of wine so please excuse me if this problem has already
> been fixed... (but it seems not ;) )
>
> I recently installed on my Gentoo (up-to-date) the CVS version of Wine
> and installed Igor (version 5.04) using different profiles (Win98, 2000
> and XP).
>
> Igor is a scientific software I use to analyze measurements data.
>
> When launching the Igor program, it prints normally the menu bar (File,
> Edit, ...) and remove all of the entries one after the other, printing
> "fixme:font:GetCharacterPlacementW classes not implemented" for each.
>
> After a few search, this function seems related to BiDi and Left-Right
> justification.
> (See the related topic about Pegasus Mail issued in 2004 so far)
>
> I've already tried different locale (UTF-8, ISO-8859) and language as I
> thought it was due to wrong charset => Nothing.
>
> So my question is multiple :
> * Is there already a patch for this FixMe ?
> * Does someone know how to by-pass this class ? I mean, i really don't
> care if the 'About' or 'Help' menu is not right  justified in this
> software.
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier Crauste

Hi Olivier, you could always file a bug in bugzilla for this problem,
maybe one of the developers has a quick fix. Furthermore you could try
to hack wine's source ( the function is  in dlls/gdi32/font.c) and
fiddle around a bit , to see if you can get around the bug.