Bug 125145 – broken menu font in wine-0.9.9

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Krzysztof Raczkowski 2006-03-05 15:45:03 UTC]

After upgrade to wine-0.9.9 I got very nasty menu/default font. Look at this screen:
http://student.prz.rzeszow.pl/~raku/gentoo/wine/wine-font.jpg

When I downgrade to wine-0.9.8-r1, font is OK (default Arial or something which look close to Arial)

Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-ck3-r1-dri i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-ck3-r1-dri i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -g0 -ftracer -ffast-math -fforce-addr -s -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DG_DISABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g0 -ftracer -ffast-math -fforce-addr -s -pipe -march=athlon-xp -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DG_DISABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg candy distlocks moo sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.prz.edu.pl http://gentoo.prz.edu.pl ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
LANG="pl_PL"
LC_ALL="pl_PL"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common -s"
LINGUAS="pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://linux.prz.edu.pl/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X acl acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dri eds encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif hal imlib jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libwww mad mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb videos vorbis xml xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_pl userland_GNU video_cards_ati"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-03-05 17:50:46 UTC]

can you name a simple program that comes with wine that exhibits this issue ?  like `notepad` or something ?

[Comment 2 Francisco José Cañizares Santofimia 2006-03-05 22:28:02 UTC]

This is because: you probably need fontforge (which is not included in the dependancies for 0.9.9) to build fonts, and in any case, it don't detects the font. Check: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4662

[Comment 3 Krzysztof Raczkowski 2006-03-06 02:42:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> can you name a simple program that comes with wine that exhibits this issue ? 
> like `notepad` or something ?
> 
http://student.prz.rzeszow.pl/~raku/gentoo/wine/notepad-font.jpg
All menus in all programs running in wine use this font (which is called Brrritty and is installed on my system).
As I said before, in 0.9.8-r1 font is normal (Arial-like)

(In reply to comment #2)
Installing fontforge and recompilling wine doesn't help.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2006-03-06 16:08:38 UTC]

the font wine falls back to depends highly on your system ... mine for example fallsback to a nepali font ;)

[Comment 5 Francisco José Cañizares Santofimia 2006-03-06 22:20:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> the font wine falls back to depends highly on your system ... mine for example
> fallsback to a nepali font ;)
> 
As I said on winehq bugs tracking system, it uses the first font it detects.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2006-03-06 22:36:56 UTC]

thanks

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2006-04-06 05:41:14 UTC]

*** Bug 128890 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Peter Hyman 2006-04-07 08:18:29 UTC]

See bug #125752 . I will see if updating fontforge will help resolve the issue.

 ------- Comment #3 From Neil Skrypuch  2006-04-07 07:44 PST  [reply] -------

This newer version of fontforge should be in portage, as newer versions of Wine
depend on it (more specifically, fontforge-20050624 generates wrong fonts for a
number of cases in the Wine build, this is fixed in newer versions of
fontforge).

Do a 'wine notepad' and type something in Notepad to see the issue. Browsing
through the fonts list in Notepad also reveals a few other broken fonts.

[Comment 9 Peter Hyman 2006-04-07 09:34:07 UTC]

Yes. wine > 0.9.9 requires a new version of fontforge which is not in portage. I installed and tested fontforge 20060114 and wine compiles and works fine and the fonts are usable. This is not caught in wine's configure.ac since it just looks for the fontforge executable, not a particular version of fontforge. This has been reported upstream as well. The submitter of this bug should add bug #125752 as a depends for this bug since it is a blocker.

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-09 03:09:45 UTC]

*** Bug 129313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2006-04-09 10:50:02 UTC]

partly upstream, partly our fault

[Comment 12 SpanKY 2006-04-09 10:50:22 UTC]

newer wine versions force a newer fontforge version so that the generated fonts arent broken