Problem with japanese programs

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:18 am

Hello.
I have a tiny problem.
I am running Character Maker (a japanese painting program aimed mainly for RPG Maker and the like).
Now on Windows, it used the default system font, but when I run it under Wine it uses an ugly handwriting font.
Is there a way to fix this problem?
It also happens with several programs which were originally in japanese (such as Melody Raiser [from the same author] and PSX Multi Converter [A program to play music videos and view images from Playstation CDs]).

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:01 am

"kaeza" <[email protected]> wrote:

I am running Character Maker (a japanese painting program aimed
mainly for RPG Maker and the like).
Now on Windows, it used the default system font, but when I run
it under Wine it uses an ugly handwriting font.
Is there a way to fix this problem?
It also happens with several programs which were originally in
japanese (such as Melody Raiser [from the same author] and PSX
Multi Converter [A program to play music videos and view images
from Playstation CDs]).

"winetricks allfonts" might help.

Cloudef · Post by **Cloudef** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:48 am

LC_LANG=ja_JP.utf8 wine program.exe
or LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 wine program.exe

Make sure you have the locale installed.
You might also need some Japanese fonts installed in wine.

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:04 pm

What I really want is to make Wine have the Windows behavior of using the System font for the program. How can I do that?

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:07 pm

ok now trying "winetricks allfonts"... hope it works

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:10 pm

uhhh... I forgot to specify, but the programs that I'm talking about were translated unofficially (by a hacker) and are in english, but it seems it still searchs for the jap fonts for the dialogs/windows.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:39 pm

kaeza wrote:What I really want is to make Wine have the Windows behavior of using the System font for the program. How can I do that?

You really don't want to do that. Wine's system fonts doesn't have all glyphs in it.

What you need is a set of Japanese fonts installed in your system. And tel Wine to use those font's as font replacements. Google for how exactly do font substitutes in Wine for Japanese fonts.

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:24 am

Ok, I got a workaround (I think).
I just symlinked all the fonts from my windows installation to the Wine fonts dir and now it works.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:54 am

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:24 PM, kaeza <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok, I got a workaround (I think).
I just symlinked all the fonts from my windows installation to the Wine fonts dir and now it works.

Might be better to copy them. Do not overwrite the font files
installed by winetricks.

James

kaeza · Post by **kaeza** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:13 pm

Okay. Now that I got Wine working, I think I'll just ditch my Windows install and use Linux for everything.
For the few programs that can't/don't want to find a Linux alternative, I'll just use Wine.