Comment 35 for bug 165665

>> BUT in the font selection dialogue NO font, NO font style and NO font size is selected for the selected text, even for texts in font arial

the missing font style is confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape 11643. For both Arial text and also for Windings text, there is no font family reported in the status bar at the bottom. This appears to be related to the structure of the <text> tag. Normally, if you create text using the gui, you will have a <text> tag with a style attribute in it, and the style attribute will contain the font-family. The <text> tag will then have a <tspan> inside it, with no font information in the <tspan>. In the file FontTest.svg the font family info is in the <tspan> tag, not the <text> tag, which is probably why it is not found.
      This is a valid bug, but it should be reported separately, since it is not related to the use of non-unicode fonts, and since it may not be Windows-specific, where the original bug report was Windows-specific.