On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > I have managed to get MS word to work under crossover. > > I see that if I do : > > > > > > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword > > > > > > 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. > > > 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". > > > 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
I see that mixed Hebrew and English really does NOT work. Very sad ;-( -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 3344135
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