I recently upgraded from Wine 1.6 to 1.8 and have noticed that symbol fonts such as wingding and webdings no longer display their glyphs but just display a standard character instead.
For example start write.exe in the system32 directory and type in sone characters after selecting the wingding font. The letter J should produce a smiley face but it does not.
Tested on various 64 versions of Linux in both 32 and 64 bit prefixes.
Symbol fonts no longer working
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
I just check in 1.9.9. The Symbol font displays correctly in Wordpad, but Webdings and Wingdings don't. The problem seems to be limited to Wordpad; Wingdings and Webdings display normally in Notepad and Word 2007.
File a bug, and since you say this used to work, run a regression test if you are able. https://wiki.winehq.org/Regression_Testing
File a bug, and since you say this used to work, run a regression test if you are able. https://wiki.winehq.org/Regression_Testing
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
Are you sure this worked for you in 1.6? I just tested this in 1.5.27 (I already had a build of that), and Webdings/Wingdings don't display in Wordpad there, either.
It's still a bug, but if it's not a regression, there's no need for a regression test.
It's still a bug, but if it's not a regression, there's no need for a regression test.
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
It used to work in MetaTrader4 but since upgrading the smiley faces are now squares.
Using write.exe / wordpad seemed a logical step since it is easier to visualise fonts.
Article at https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7156 has image attachment.
Font files from Windows XP and 7 used to work but none now in latest wine or dev builds.
Can I install multiple versions of Wine concurrently without each interfering?
Using write.exe / wordpad seemed a logical step since it is easier to visualise fonts.
Article at https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7156 has image attachment.
Font files from Windows XP and 7 used to work but none now in latest wine or dev builds.
Can I install multiple versions of Wine concurrently without each interfering?
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
You should have said that Metatrader 4 was the real problem; that app is already linked to https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7156.
What version of fontconfig are you using? You may be running into https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58641.Font files from Windows XP and 7 used to work but none now in latest wine or dev builds.
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
Indeed, MetaTrader did first show the issue but when I also noticed that Wordpad was not working then I decided to report it.
I shall check out fontconfig and report back - should just installing different versions cause Wine applications to work correctly?
I shall check out fontconfig and report back - should just installing different versions cause Wine applications to work correctly?
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
If it's that bug, then changing to a version of fontconfig not affected by it should fix it.
It's also being tracked here as https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33884.
It's also being tracked here as https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33884.
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
OK, finally managed to get back to the computer and upgrading fontconfig to the latest version (2.11.95) resolved the problem - thank you very much for your assistace.
For the issue with Wordpad not displaying the symbol fonts correctly, what is the process to report a bug in the appropriate place?
For the issue with Wordpad not displaying the symbol fonts correctly, what is the process to report a bug in the appropriate place?
Re: Symbol fonts no longer working
Thanks - done here: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40576
