[Bug 32250] perfect world international errors out on startup after Sirens of War expansion

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32250

Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi> 2013-06-23 09:39:38 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I copied a fully verified game directory from a windows machine.
> elementclient.exe still fails to find some files which have chinese names.
> i tried the (LC_TYPE="en_US") or chinese environment tricks but the result is
> the same.

This, I believe, is the core of the problem. There is something going wrong
with chinese file names.

With Wine 1.2.3, the problem does not exist, and I think it appeared some time
early in the 1.3 series of Wine, and has been there ever since. I wish I knew
why only very few people have it.

(Before the Rising Call update to PWI, I was able to use Wine 1.5.30 to run
only patcher.exe, and then switch to Wine 1.2.3 to run the game itself. That
does not work with Rising Call, as elementclient.exe will start patcher.exe
instead. Patcher on 1.2.3 will just deadlock, and elementclient.exe on anything
else than 1.2.3 does not work. This bug report is one of the "does not work"
cases, and is what I currently get.)

LC_CTYPE seems to have some effect. With Wine 1.6_rc2, LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8",
the patcher can verify the game apparently ok, but the game won't run, with the
problem in this report. I changed LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8", and suddenly verify
started to take ages: <10% progress in a few hours, it is apparently
downloading every single game file from the server. I changed LC_CTYPE back,
and verify is still taking ages, as if temporarily having it chinese totally
broke something.

*sigh* Too many variables at play here: wine version and build options, locale,
stuff installed via winetricks... this is approaching voodoo. And then some
people had no problems. I'm giving up once again.

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