[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1009198: Bug#1009198: fonts-droid-fallback: English text broken when running programs via wine that use both Japanese and Latin characters

[Jonas Smedegaard]

X-Debbugs-Cc: konomikitten at gmail.com

Quoting Konomi Kitten (2022-04-08 21:21:08)
> This problem only affects wine and may be due to wine partially 
> supporting Uniscribe [1].

[...]

> [1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Uniscribe

Looking at that list, it seems Wine uses non-free fonts as fallback at 
least for Latin1 characters.

Perhaps the problem is that Wine asks only for a specific non-existing 
font, without fallback e.g. to "sans-serif", causing generally sensible 
fonts to be ignored as fallback and only the extremely fallback-ish 
Droid to be picked.  Then the solution is likely to patch Wine to 
explicitly pick fonts available in Debian (e.g. speific Noto fonts as 
appropriate).

Locally on your own system you can try define fontconfig substitutions 
for each of the fonts listed in that Uniscribe list missing in Debian, 
starting with "Microsoft Sans Serif".


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

-- 
 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
 * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

 [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/attachments/20220409/edcc3432/attachment.sig>