The provided Tahoma font is very old and has some rendering problems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wine (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf files (in directory /usr/share/
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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-
Candidate: 8.0.1~repack-
Version table:
*** 8.0.1~repack-
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.