Hebrew Under crossover

[Shachar Shemesh]

Aharon Schkolnik wrote:

> I have managed to get MS word to work under crossover.
> I see that if I do :
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> LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword
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> I can insert Hebrew.
I'm afraid I'm somewhat to blame for that. I started having Wine 
understand all of the different LC_* environment settings correctly 
(several years ago), but ran out of free time for wine several years ago.

I know of two common settings for people who want a Hebrew "enabled" 
machine with an English interface. The one you should officially use is 
to set LANG to he_IL (or he_IL.UTF-8), and to set LC_MESSAGES to en_US. 
This has the effect of setting everything to Hebrew (dates, measurements 
etc.) but the actual language.

The second mode (only relevant if you do not work in UTF-8) is to set 
LANG to en_US and LC_CTYPE to he_IL. This means the system is 
essentially speaking English, but with an encoding that has Hebrew support.

Despite the fact that the first one is the more correct approach, the 
second one is (or, at least, used to be) the more common one. The 
problem is that not all programs correctly parse all relevant LC_* 
variables, and as a result, not all combinations work as well for all 
programs.

Last I checked, Wine only supported the LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL 
combination. In other words, it did not take LC_MESSAGES into account.
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> Is there a "right" way to set things up so I don't have to set LC_ALL 
> and then run winword ?
Not exactly "right", but setting LANG should be "enough".
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> Ideally, I would just like to choose crossover from the KDE menu, and 
> then choose winword from as the windows command, or even better, 
> create an item on the KDE menu which will just run winword and have it 
> work properly.
Use Dotan's solution.

Take to heart, however, that Wine also has poor keyboard language 
reporting. The upshot of this is that switching keyboard when typing in 
Word will likely produce reasonable Hebrew *or* reasonable English 
outputs, but not both in the same run. Changing keyboard effectively 
requires changing the LANG variable.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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