[Wine] Re: Thai keyboard input does not work

[nlmarco]

Thanks for the quick reply! I've upgraded to version 0.9.59 (great that you have an Ubuntu repository!!!), but unfortunately it still doesn't work (same as before: input either completely ignored or question marks).

Actually, the IE6 now works even worse :-( With the older Wine version, I was able to navigate to http://www.nightlabs.de - now it crashes and hangs up Wine completely (I have to kill -9 both IEXPLORE.EXE and wineserver). You find a log here: http://www.nightlabs.de/~marco/wine/2008-04-16.00/ie6_notworking_with_wine_0.9.59_afterreinstall_ies4linux.txt

...hmmm... very weird. It seems to be a Heisenbug: I just tried it again and now the site loads - still getting a "Backtrace" logged though and it hangs up when I close the IE (have to kill -9 IEXPLORE.EXE and wineserver, Ctrl-C doesn't work). Here's the log of this situation: http://www.nightlabs.de/~marco/wine/2008-04-16.00/ie6_loading_site_but_still_hanging_up_on_exit.txt

I don't really understand, though, why I should set the LANG environment variable (of course I tried it but it doesn't change anything). Note, that I don't want the applications (e.g. IE) to talk Thai with me, but I want to input Thai characters. And I need to be able to switch keyboard layouts on the fly, since e.g. URLs, logins etc. need to be entered using Latin characters. Additionally, Thai texts are usually mixed and contain both Thai and Latin characters (e.g. product names) in the same document.

You can switch layouts in both Windows and KDE usually back and forth with either a Shortcut (in KDE it's usually Ctrl-Alt-K, in Windows Shift-Alt) or a click on the appropriate symbol in the click start bar. As far as I understand it, this simply changes the key codes that are passed to the applications. It does not change the whole environment, but affects only the input - and that's what I want. But I assume that Wine doesn't know what to do with the Thai key codes when I switch KDE's keyboard layout... maybe I somehow have to register a key-map in Wine?

Best regards, Marco :-)