The provided Tahoma font is very old and has some rendering problems

[Fedon Kadifeli]

The tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf files (in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/wine) are quite old and have some rendering problems. Please, update them with newer ones.

For more detailed information, please see this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1497435/some-sizes-of-tahoma-font-are-rendered-very-badly

In summary:

The Tahoma font provided in Ubuntu is very old (version 0.001, year 2004, glyph count 988), while the one provided Windows 11 is version 7.01 (year 2020, glyph count 4495).

Replacing the tahoma*.ttf files with newer ones copied (FOR TESTING PURPOSES) from a Windows 11 machine, solves the problem detailed below:

(1) Font sizes 10.0 and below are badly rendered (with no "Subpixel Antialiasing" = SA) and some non-English characters being replaced with some different font (but with SA).

(2) Font size 10.5 is rendered correctly (with SA).

(3) Font sizes 11.0, 11.5, and 12.0 have the same problem as in 1.

(4) Font sizes 12.5 and above are OK again.

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$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 23.10
Release: 23.10

$ apt-cache policy fonts-wine
fonts-wine:
  Installed: 8.0.1~repack-3ubuntu2
  Candidate: 8.0.1~repack-3ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 8.0.1~repack-3ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.