<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:<br>
> 2009/3/25 Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik@gmail.com>:<br>
> > I have managed to get MS word to work under crossover.<br>
> > I see that if I do :<br>
> ><br>
> > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword<br>
> ><br>
> > I can insert Hebrew.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is there a "right" way to set things up so I don't have to set LC_ALL and<br>
> > then run winword ?<br>
> ><br>
> > Ideally, I would just like to choose crossover from the KDE menu, and<br>
> > then choose winword from as the windows command, or even better, create<br>
> > an item on the KDE menu which will just run winword and have it work<br>
> > properly.<br>
> ><br>
> > If I set up my locale globally to be he_IL.UTF-8, will it screw up other<br>
> > things ?<br>
> ><br>
> > TIA.<br>
><br>
> Write a script that sets the local then opens the app.<br>
><br>
> #!/bin/bash<br>
> LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword<br>
> wine /path/to/word<br>
><br>
> Are you implying that you have MS Word working with full Hebrew<br>
> document support (I don't care about interface language) in Crossover?<br>
> Which version of Crossover, with which version of MS Office? Have you<br>
> verified that Hebrew displays RTL and that you can type in Hebrew?<br>
> This has been a problem for as long as I remember, and the last<br>
> Crossover that I tried (v5) did not have full Hebrew document support.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I see that I spoke too soon. I can enter Hebrew text, but mixed Hebrew and English is screwy !<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Darn - I really need a solution for this. I was going to use vmware to access my XP partition and run MS word under XP under vmware under Linux, but my disks are SCSI, and as far as I can tell vmware doesn't support raw SCSI disks.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent the only way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-(<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Any ideas will be greatly appreciated !<br>
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The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik<br>
and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | <br>
is great, and the Master of the house is | aschkolnik@gmail.com<br>
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