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omer666

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Strange characters with Wine

Hi,
I've recently noticed corrupted "m" and "w" characters in Wine. Does anybody have the same problem ?

Last edited by omer666 (2013-12-19 06:11:52)

Dotslash

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

YES! http://oi40.tinypic.com/wvuc8x.jpg

Kilzool

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Yes, and lets make sure we are on the same page with the wine version.

 [PACMAN] upgraded wine (1.7.7-1 -> 1.7.8-1) 

I have x86 system.

Last edited by Kilzool (2013-12-07 18:19:00)

Jellicent

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

There was someone else addressing the same problem, it wasn't about wine but firefox and chromium I think. Not sure.

bohoomil

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

It seems to be a bug in freetype2 2.5.1. I noticed this sort of things happen when using a font with embedded bitmaps enabled (Monaco in my case).

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malevolent

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Same here, I' reinstalled allfonts, as mentioned on the wiki, and even created the registry key, but I see the same weird characters you see after the wine upgrade to 1.7.8.

Dotslash

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

lib32-freetype2 fixed it.

omer666

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

lib32-freetype2 fixed it.

lib32-freetype2 didn't fix it, freetype2-2.5.2 did.

Dotslash

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Not really sure, but freetype2 by itsself didn't fix it.

bohoomil

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

@Dotslash, yes, it did:

2013-12-04  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>

    [sfnt] Fix handling of embedded bitmap strikes.

    This corrects the commit from 2013-11-21.  Problem reported by
    Andrey Panov <panov@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>.

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derblub

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Sorry to push this topic back up, but I've exactly the same problem (lower-case 'm' & 'w' ) and the provided solutions didn't work.

This happens JUST on 11px font size - and I'm not in Wine (using awm / google-chrome-beta).

Any idea how I can troubleshoot?

Update:
seems like installing ttf-microsoft-tahoma solved the issue (for now).

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bohoomil

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

And the font you are using is…?

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derblub

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

And the font you are using is…?

the font-stack was:
'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif
I tried all and found the corrupted one was "tahoma", not sure what package caused this issue, but just installing ttf-microsoft-tahoma solved it.

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ball

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

I am still affected by this bug in Windows programes using wine. I use the infinality patchset so for me there was no update of freetype until now... I tried ttf-microsoft-tahoma from AUR as suggested by derblub, but that didn't help.

I guess I'll have to wait until a new infinality patch for freetype gets released -- or are there any other pointers?

Jellicent

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

I am still affected by this bug in Windows programes using wine. I use the infinality patchset so for me there was no update of freetype until now... I tried ttf-microsoft-tahoma from AUR as suggested by derblub, but that didn't help.

I guess I'll have to wait until a new infinality patch for freetype gets released -- or are there any other pointers?

I don't use infinality, but I just went nuts and installed all the ttf-microsoft fonts from the AUR. Okay, Arial, Tahoma and Verdana. Solved it for me.

akatz712

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

This has NOT been solved. When using Wine, I still get the corrupted m and w. I have the latest freetype2 version 2.5.2. I did the AUR  ttf-microsoft-tahoma . Nothing fixes this.

Is there a way to know what font I am looking at? It would probably be the default system font, which is Tahoma for Windows?

omer666

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Well, considering it was on my rig I went on and put the solved tag.

Potomac

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Re: Strange characters with Wine

Hi,
I've recently noticed corrupted "m" and "w" characters in Wine. Does anybody have the same problem ?

same problem for me