weird characters in wine after upgrade

[Michael Schwendt]

On 05/08/07, Thomas <c.t.l at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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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

Sounds as if this could have been discovered when this version of wine
still was  a Test Update only. Now it may need a fix at the
package-level, so please open a ticket at http://bugzilla.redhat.com
-- Fedora really needs more testers, more testing, more package
maintainers, less mass-updates, ...