weird characters in wine after upgrade

[Thomas]

fedora-list-request at redhat.com schrieb:
> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 22:55:34 +0200
> From: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> Subject: weird characters in wine after upgrade
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> After about 20 days away from home, I switched on the pc and, besides
> other
> packages, I upgraded wine  from  0.9.39-1.fc7 to  0.9.42-1.fc7 and kernel
> >from 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 to 2.6.22.1-41.fc7, as proposed by yum.
> After rebooting with the new kernel, in all wine applications I see weird
> unreadable characters.
> In particular, also inside winecfg window.
> It seems it does not depend on the kernel upgrade, because if I create
> a new
> user and run winecfg or other wine applications (tried notepad) as that
> user, I can correctly see the characters.
> So I presume it depends on pre-existing profile "import" phase by the
> upgraded wine...
> Any hint?  I have many applications under this user and I wouldn't like to
> wipe out  all config...
>
> The system is fc7 x86_64.
> Thanks in advance.
> Gianluca
>
same for FC6 i386. After deleting the folder ".font" in the users home
directory the fonts were back to normal.
Thomas Leclaire