Word in Hebrew and Wine

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi,

I have a pretty good estimate of what needs to be done to get Word 
supported in Hebrew. The current problems have to do with Word calling 
"GetKeyboardLang" after each character, and using the result as a basis 
for interpreting each received character. Currently, this function just 
returns the system locale, which causes Word to assume each and every 
letter is a Hebrew one, even the English ones. The results are pretty 
catastrophic, as people have reported (typing "Hi there everyone" 
typically results in the screen showing "Hthere everyone i", with "yone" 
highlighted with green to say it has syntax correction to suggest. The 
correct is to replace "there" with "they're").

I have been itching to do an overhaul of the Wine keyboard handling for 
some time. I think the current scheme is overly complicated, and causes 
problems. This is a major task, but I may be able to recrute some local 
help. I am a bit worried, however, about the fact that some other people 
may also working on a similar task at the moment. I know Dmitry said in 
the past he is rennovating the keyboard a little, and I know codeweavers 
still hold a patch that will allow UTF-8 input locale to work.

I would like to coordinate the effort. If anyone is working on the 
keyboard right now, please let me know.

          Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/