fixme:font:find_matching_face Untranslated charset 255

[GuyMann]

I have installed a countdown screensaver( wine countdwn.scr /s) which does run under wine 7.15 (Staging), but the font is not detected and uses an alternative instead. It produces the folowing output:

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0118:fixme:font:get_nearest_charset returning DEFAULT_CHARSET face->fs.fsCsb[0] = 00000000 file = L"\\??\\Z:\\home\\paul\\.local\\share\\fonts\\Linotype GmbH\\TrueType\\Helvetica Neue\\Helvetica_Neue_UltraLight.ttf"
011c:fixme:font:find_matching_face Untranslated charset 255

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The font it should find is Helvetica_Neue_UltraLight. I have no idea what "find_matching_face Untranslated charset 255" refers to. This same screensaver worked flawlessly under win 5.x and did not work at all under wine 6.x

I cannot see a way of resolving this. If anyone has any ideas it would be appreciated.

[invisible kid]

Just a comment from the peanut gallery. Sometimes font stuff on linux isn't too fun to deal with. It sounds like it was working and picking the font you liked with wine 5.x. Could it also be possible that before it was picking the incorrect font, and now it's picking the correct one, but you are not used to it? On the linux side there is font name matching algorithms that are applied almost invisibly when a font is named to use. mplayer started picking a font I didn't like at one point and I was able to make it pick the font I liked. There is a linux program

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xfontsel

that will load a font file and let you confirm it's the correct font, but it may not work with true type fonts (ttf). Just something to chew on until you get a real answer.

[GuyMann]

Thanks for the reply; no it is definitely now picking the wrong font. I can live with it, much better that 6.x where it was not working at all, but would prefer the original font again. I cannot find any explaintion of the cause of this error message anywhere.

[jkfloris]

Could it be that you used to have the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed?
This package contains the most common Windows fonts.