[Wine] Re: forcing codepage for non-unicode apps

Pedro Araujo Chaves Jr. inckie at gmail.com
Wed May 23 12:56:48 CDT 2007


On 2007-05-20, Alex D. <alex.d at hushmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've a problem running a few apps that are supposed to output some
> text in Russian, but it's not displayed correctly (instead it looks
> like text in the web browser when wrong charset is selected).
>
> I think these applications try to use GDI or standart Windows
> controls with non-unicode text in Windows-1251 Cyrillic codepage
> and it doesn't work. [snip]
>
> Thanks for any help.

Your issue looks exactly like what we have here with Lotus Notes R5.

With some invaluable help from Dmitry (thanks!), I have just sent a
patch [1] for bug #7571 [2] to Wine's bugzilla. Could you please test
it and see if it works for you?

[1] http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=6411&action=view
[2] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7571

Cheers,
- Pedro.

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