[Wine] How to set default font and the subsititution font?

[Song Zhiwei]

Who can explain that the menu of notepad.exe uses the font
stxingkai.ttf instead of Tahoma?

2007/5/26, Song Zhiwei <songzw at gmail.com>:
> The SystemLink works well but the default font works sometimes.
>
> Applications use "Tahoma" as the default font sometimes, eg. the
> buttong label of winecfg,
> and still use stsingkai.ttf in other times, eg. the menu of notepad.exe
>
> system.reg contains the following content:
>
> [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontSubstitutes]
> ......
> "MS Shell Dlg"="Tahoma"
> "MS Shell Dlg 2"="Tahoma"
> .....
>
> [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontLink\\SystemLink]
> "Tahoma"=str(7):"simsun.ttf\0"
>
>
> 2007/5/25, Nigel Liang <ncliang at gmail.com>:
> > > Then the second problem is How to set the
> > > substitution font of a font? If the encoding of a
> > > char is not in the range of the encoding of the
> > > font, then the substitution font is loaded. If I
> > > set "Tahoma" as the default font and simsun.ttf as
> > > the substitution font of "Tahoma", then wine can
> > > show acsii via "Tahoma" and chinese words via
> > > simsun.ttf
> >
> > This can be done by adding the following entry in ~/.wine/system.reg
> > -- snip --
> > [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows
> > NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontLink\\SystemLink] 1150441842
> > "Tahoma"=str(7):"simsun.ttf\0"
> > -- snip --
> > This registry specifies that simsun should be used as a "fallback"
> > font for Tahoma in case the char is not present in Tahoma. Similarly,
> > you can also add font link for other fonts.
> >
> > -Nigel
> >
>