Re: [Bug 9021] New: unable to read characters to navigate "wine configuration" and "wine file"

[Tom Wilson]

I am still experiencing the same problem.  Wine did not exhibit any
problems before the upgrade I listed in the attachment.
Thanks.

Wine Bugs wrote:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9021
>        Summary: unable to read characters to navigate "wine
>                 configuration" and "wine file"
>        Product: Wine
>        Version: unspecified
>       Platform: Other
>     OS/Version: other
>         Status: UNCONFIRMED
>       Severity: normal
>       Priority: P2
>      Component: wine-x11driver
>     AssignedTo: [e-mail]
>     ReportedBy: [e-mail]
>
>
> I updated my Fedora 7 to the latest WINE.  I am no longer presented with alpha
> numeric characters when I attempt to access the updated program, instead I see a
> lowercase, cursive “go” or “goo” or simply “g” everywhere.  I've removed wine
> and reinstalled twice, to no avail. (“everywhere” being wherever an alphabetic
> character would normally appear in the “wine configuration” or the “wine file” 
> programs.)  I've taken a snapshot of the desktop when wine is open  in wine
> itself.  I have managed to run an application (literally by blind luck) and it
> was not affected.  It is simply a matter of not being able to navigate.  Here is
> the snapshot:   http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8717/screenshotqn5.png
> What look like little indentations in the snapshot, appear to be little cursive
> g or go on the desktop.

I recently upgraded from
Fedora (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7) to
Fedora (2.6.22.1-27.fc7) via yum.
I upgraded wine via yum at about the same time.

[twilson@floy ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
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=
[twilson@floy ~]$

[twilson@floy ~]$ wine --version
wine-0.9.41
[twilson@floy ~]$