[Wine] Consistently getting RenderBadGlyphSet with Internet Explorer

[merutak at gmail.com]

On many web pages (notably ones in the Hebrew language), Internet
Explorer crashes wine with this message:

X Error of failed request:  RenderBadGlyphSet (invalid GlyphSet
parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  156 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (RenderCompositeGlyphs16)
  GlyphSet id in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  something...
  Current serial number in output stream:  something else

Before that, I get a lot of these (substitute arbitrary hexadecimal
numbers for ??):

fixme:font:WineEngGetGlyphOutline FT_Load_Glyph on index ?? returns 6
err:xrender:UploadGlyph GetGlyphOutlineW failed

Anyone know this problem, what it means, how to overcome it, etc.?