[Wine] Re: character encoding for other languages besides english?

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sat Sep 20 10:58:25 CDT 2008


stimpak wrote:
> Greetings all
> 
> I tried to install though an .msi installer. That particular installer has an option of choosing which languange you want to choose, and since im not a native english speaker i chose greek. 
> 
> now instead of displaying the correct letters i got a bunch of "???" instead of the ones i should get!
> 
> My ubuntu installation supports and displays greek encoding without any problem so i thought its a wine bug?
> 
> Is there any way to fix it?


Set LANG environment variable to correct locale "el_GR.utf8":

Code:
LANG=el_GR.utf8 wine start setup.msi









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