On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 16:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/06/04 20:06 (GMT+0200) Nicolas Mailhot composed: > > > 1. why is wine making them mandatory? > > Probably related to Tahoma being the Windows System (aka Menu) font in > W2K > and/or WXP (IIRC, in both). It is quite nicely described on wikipedia [1]: The Wine project includes a free font (Wine Tahoma Regular and Wine Tahoma Bold) designed to have identical metrics to the Tahoma font.[6] This was done because Tahoma is available by default on Windows, and many applications expect the font to be available. Before Wine included a Tahoma replacement font, some applications, such as Steam, would not display any text at all, rendering them nearly unusable. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoma_(typeface)#Free_replacement -- Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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