wine users - Aug 2007 - Wine config dialog: bad font or language choice

Today I wanted to verify my Excel bug with Wine 0.9.43,
and to reinstall MS-Office for the purpose.
"My" bug is: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8795

However, initial setup of Wine did not work due to a font
problem of the winecfg program. It displays sequences of
cross-bar-Y characters just like Japanese web pages do.

   http://www.clausfischer.com/winebug/winecfg.png

I don't know whether it's a font or a language choice problem.

Anyway I'll append some settings here:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL

$ wine --version
wine-0.9.43
Wine exited with a successful status


Any hints are appreciated.


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Claus Fischer <claus.fischer@clausfischer.com>
http://www.clausfischer.com/