Russian font support?

kjkrum · Post by **kjkrum** » Fri May 16, 2008 1:46 am

I'm trying to run a Russian application in Wine 0.9.59 on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be running fine, but all the text is gibberish.

How do I get Russian Cyrillic font support in Wine? Is it as simple as installing some fonts? Where would I get them, and where would I put them?

Vjacheslav V. Borisov · Fri May 16, 2008 3:55 am

kjkrum ÐÉÛÅÔ:

I'm trying to run a Russian application in Wine 0.9.59 on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be running fine, but all the text is gibberish.

How do I get Russian Cyrillic font support in Wine? Is it as simple as installing some fonts? Where would I get them, and where would I put them?

you could also set locale to ru_RU.UTF-8 or ru_RU.KOI8-R

didencool · Post by **didencool** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:09 am

Обычно решается установкой шрифта Tahoma.ttf

You need install font Tahoma.ttf in your wine env

kjkrum · Post by **kjkrum** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:29 am

didencool wrote:You need install font Tahoma.ttf in your wine env

How do I do that, exactly? I keep finding how-tos that just say to install the fonts in the Wine font directory. I copied tahoma.ttf from my WinXP installation into ~.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, but it had no effect. Setting LC_ALL also had no effect.

Here's a screenshot of what's going on. It must be finding a Cyrillic font somewhere, because the Gecko widget is using it to render a page. Just the UI elements are screwed up.

http://pics.livejournal.com/madscience/pic/000b063p

didencool · Post by **didencool** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:47 am

kjkrum wrote: How do I do that, exactly? I keep finding how-tos that just say to install the fonts in the Wine font directory. I copied tahoma.ttf from my WinXP installation into ~.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, but it had no effect. Setting LC_ALL also had no effect.

Here's a screenshot of what's going on. It must be finding a Cyrillic font somewhere, because the Gecko widget is using it to render a page. Just the UI elements are screwed up.

http://pics.livejournal.com/madscience/pic/000b063p

It hard to say i don't use this app but as for installing fonts, try winetricks command to add some fonts...
Some fonts display correct

so with local is all OK...
try to find in regisrty what font is used by app... under
some where such
localmachine/appdeveloper/appname/
currentuser/appdeveloper/appname/
try find what font is ussed by app and install it by winetricks...

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:59 am

kjkrum wrote:I'm trying to run a Russian application in Wine 0.9.59 on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be running fine, but all the text is gibberish.

How do I get Russian Cyrillic font support in Wine? Is it as simple as installing some fonts? Where would I get them, and where would I put them?

All Wine fonts have Cyrillic characters in them. All you need to do is to run app with LANG env var set properly:

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LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 wine notepad

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