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and subject line Re: Bug#469959: wine: Uses latin only fonts as substitution
for the hardcoded tahoma.
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regarding wine: Uses latin only fonts as substitution for the hardcoded tahoma.
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Package: wine
Version: 0.9.56-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Various parts of WINE are hardcoded to use the non-free Tahoma font, that is
not provided by any Debian package. If the user does not want to install
manually this font (or can't install it because of licensing issues) WINE seems
to randomly chose another font (actually the choice may not be random, but
usually varies from computer to computer) as substitution. Almost allays such
font lacks nonlatin characters, needed to display localized messages and
dialogs, and sometimes it lacks even latin characters (in one case font with
music symbols was chosen for example).
To avoid any need to use non free font, most suitable solution will be to
replace the hardcoded Tahoma with a free font, choosing one that covers as
many sets of characters as possible. Such fonts can be found in the ttf-dejavu
package for example. Also a dependency on the selected font package must be
added, because WINE actually does depend on suitable font to display dialogs
correctly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-plastic.586 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wine depends on:
ii libwine-alsa 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - ALSA
ii libwine-cms 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - color
ii libwine-gl 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - OpenG
ii libwine-gphoto2 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - camer
ii libwine-ldap 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - LDAP
ii libwine-print 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - print
ii libwine-sane 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - scann
ii wine-bin 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - binar
ii wine-utils 0.9.56-1 Windows API implementation - utili
wine recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Dimitar Kavlakov skrev:
Package: wine
Version: 0.9.56-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Various parts of WINE are hardcoded to use the non-free Tahoma font, that is
not provided by any Debian package.
You're wrong. It's in libwine.
(Arial would of course be another story, but Tahoma is definitely in there.)
Such fonts can be found in the ttf-dejavu package for example.
DejaVu cannot replace Tahoma. To be a compatible replacement, the font
metrics must match, which they don't.
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