On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:14:58AM -0700, Duane Clark wrote: > Huw D M Davies wrote: > > > >MS Shell Dlg maps to either Microsoft Sans Serif or Tahoma depending > >on Windows version; the default wine.inf maps it to Tahoma so you > >should check whether you have tahoma.ttf installed. If in doubt a > >+font log will tell you what Wine picks for this font. > > In Win2k, it is picking "MS Sans Serif", but in Wine configured for > "Windows 2000" it is picking Tahoma. And indeed, using my small test > app, in Win2k with the Tahoma font, I can no longer type 4 numbers in > the field, and the margins are both set to '3'. > > On the other hand, in both Win2k and WinXP, "MS Shell Dlg" seems to be > mapping to "MS Sans Serif". So is having Tahoma the default really the > right thing to do?
I assume you mean Microsoft Sans Serif not MS Sans Serif. The former is a TrueType font (micross.ttf) the latter is a bitmap font (sserife.fon). Indeed it does look like[1] we should be using Microsoft Sans Serif for MS Shell Dlg at least for non-CJK locales. Huw. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_4qcn.asp