wine users - Jan 2011 - Wine: font shows blank squares instead of characters.

My WINE installation seems to be working quite well, except for the fact that
there is clearly some problem with the fonts: every character displays as a
little blank square.
Clearly this makes everything rather hard to read, and many things unusable. 

Any suggestions how to fix it?

Thanks.

Hairyloon wrote:
> My WINE installation seems to be working quite well, except for the fact
that there is clearly some problem with the fonts: every character displays as a
little blank square.
> Clearly this makes everything rather hard to read, and many things
unusable.
> 
> Any suggestions how to fix it?
> 
  
Try winetricks allfonts. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Charles Davis wrote:
> On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
> for Windows.
> Chip

Yes, MS broke Wine for me (came up with nice little squares instead of fonts). 
Thanks a lot!

[quote="Billy T"]If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office
2011, you may get problems with fonts.  It seems that microsoft have decided to
change some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in /Library/Fonts
and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial, Times, Verdana,
Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the originals to
/Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine prefix fonts to these
are now broken.

To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory. Easiest
is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create new shortcuts
from the /Library/Fonts folder.[/quote]

I need some help as I am obviously doing something wrong. Have recreated the
aliases but the two programs I run on wine - Legacy and Quickbooks - are still
not showing the correct fonts. I have tried clearing all font caches, downloaded
and reinstalled Wine and Legacy, closed and rebooted all to no avail. The only
thing I have noticed is that the aliases that I created from the originals all
have an "open with" default of Text Editor App while the aliases that
were there before have an "open with" default of Font Book App. Have
tried to reset the aliases to use Font Book App but this does not work and the
aliases remain as text editor default.

What am I doing wrong?

I never used MS office 2011. I think http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313535 will
help you

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