On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:51:45PM -0700, Lei Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Paul TBBle Hampson
> <paul.hamp...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> This patch fixes bug 18044.

>> Basically, the built-in FontLink functionality for subsituting
>> alternative fonts where a certain font is missing glyphs (used
>> by default for Tahoma and Microsoft Sans Serif under Windows) doesn't
>> work if the font is loaded via a FontSubstitution entry.

>> The only place this is really likely to happen turns out to be using
>> MS Shell Dlg as a font name, which is generally discouraged for general
>> UI use (as far as I can tell, you're supposed to use a lookup function
>> which normally returns Tahoma or Microsoft Sans Serif directly) but
>> this happens to be the case for uTorrent 1.8 onwards.

> This looks a lot like
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-December/065543.html.

Huh, so it does. The bug that's attached to, 16325, is a bit of an
uber-bug, and I missed looking at that link under the impression it was
fixing something else.

Oh well, too late now.

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