letters not being displayed correctly.

[hajonnes]

I reinstalled a new prefix with a tts-program called balabolka.
Balaoblka does not show the glyphs correctly but ms-notepad in wine does.
So now I wonder if anyone has seen something like this before.
https://imgur.com/a/boL7igk
I used the following winetricks to make it run:

andale
arial
comicsans
corefonts
courier
d3dx9_43
georgia
ie7
impact
msvcirt
msxml3
msxml4
speechsdk
times
trebuchet
vcrun2008
vcrun2010
verdana
w_workaround_wine_bug-26925
webdings

The only difference in the winetricks between a working version (I have a old instable prefix that works without this bug) is that I use d3dx9 in the one that works and have d3dx9_43 and msxml4 in the new one.
Suggestions on what could be wrong?

[jkfloris]

If I remember correctly, there are/were bugs with d3dx9_xx that caused the rotated text.
With the current version of Wine (8.x) there is no need for these winetricks.

Can you try the program in a clean 32-bit Wineprefix with only speechsdk and arial?

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# Create the prefix and install speechsdk and arial:
WINEPREFIX=~/balabolka WINEARCH=win32 winetricks -q speechsdk arial

# Install Balabolka:
WINEPREFIX=~/balabolka wine ~/Downloads/balabolka/setup.exe

# Run Balabolka:
cd ~/balabolka/drive_c/Program\ Files/Balabolka
WINEPREFIX=~/balabolka wine balabolka.exe

In the program you can change the font to Arial with Crtl-B.

[hajonnes]

Thanks a lot for the info and excellent help with the explicit commands.

All worked very well and there were no rotation of text or boxes for unknown characters.

I installed my 3:rd party voices as well and they worked also without winetricks.

Splendid help jkfloris, to say the least!