[Wine] Wine: font shows blank squares instead of characters.

[Charles Davis]

On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 2/6/11 2:16 PM, Billy T wrote:
>> If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get
>> problems with fonts.  It seems that microsoft have decided to change
>> some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in
>> /Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial,
>> Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the
>> originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine
>> prefix fonts to these are now broken.
>>
>> To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory.
>> Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create
>> new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.
>>
> If you are on a Mac, you can get Office 2011 for the Mac.  Why do you
> need/want/desire the Windows one?
He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
for Windows.

Chip