Wine and locales

Shachar Shemesh wine-devel at shemesh.biz
Thu Jul 29 00:10:34 CDT 2004


Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> What happens on Unix with that setup? When I try setting LANG to he_IL 
> and LC_CTYPE to en_US on unix, I can type Hebrew characters in kedit, 
> but they are saved as "?". In other words, Wine's behavior under the 
> case you mention exactly reflects the behavior Unix gives.
>
> I think the GIGO rule should apply here. Garbage in, garbage out.
>
>          Shachar

It seems that Wine under the above circumstances does not allow the 
keyboard input at all, not even for Unicode apps. This, however, strikes 
me as a bug in the keyboard input area, not in the locale handling area.

             Shachar

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