Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem. I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine. In order to do so, I run: LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content the program might have comes out blank, nothing. I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but nothing comes out in the program itself. Thanks for the help. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081231/4b3a8fcf/attachment.htm
Hi, Sorry, forgot to mention I use Ubuntu Intrepid. Thanks. Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com> wrote on 30 Dec 2008, 07:38 PM: Subject: BiDi Support Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem. I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine. In order to do so, I run: LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content the program might have comes out blank, nothing. I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but nothing comes out in the program itself. Thanks for the help. ________________________________ Free POP3 Email from www.gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081231/18338266/attachment.htm
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com> wrote:> > Hi, > I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem. > I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine. > In order to do so, I run: > LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe > The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content > the program might have comes out blank, nothing. > I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but > nothing comes out in the program itself. > Thanks for the help. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. > Visit now http://www.nawelny.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081231/4b3a8fcf/attachment.htm >http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609 -- -Austin
Hi, Thanks for the link. I saw that before, but I though the issue I had was different. The link seems to mostly be about the characters not rendering properly. The issue I have is not the characters not rendering properly, but not even showing up, completely blank. Only the title bar shows up, and it shows up rendered properly. Should I still try the fix mentioned in the link, about using the native usp10.dll? Thanks Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote on 30 Dec 2008, 07:52 PM: Subject: Re: [Wine] BiDi Support>On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem. >> I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine. >> In order to do so, I run: >> LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe >> The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content >> the program might have comes out blank, nothing. >> I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but >> nothing comes out in the program itself. >> Thanks for the help. >> >> >> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. >> Visit now http://www.nawelny.com >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081231/4b3a8fcf/attachment.htm > >> > >http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609 > >-- >-Austin >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com
Ramaddan wrote:> The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content > the program might have comes out blank, nothing.Wine's fonts don't have Arabic glyphs (character shapes). You might want to install some windows fonts into your system.
Hi Dohan, Try copy and pasting this instead. I noticed when if you click it adds something else: http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273 As for my locale, I use utf-8, but the email website I use it set to something else. I have no idea why they even have different Arabic version, as they seem all the same to me when I use them, at least the ones the one from the Middle East. I just use the SA (Saudi Arabia) one, just because I don't really see any difference. I found an arabic site that mentioned a patch was needed for wine to add character reordering for Arabic using an IBM released code, and it seems to work, but the problem is, it was made for wine 9.x, and it does not work for wine 1.x I tried to look at the code, and there seems to be major differences in some cases. Is it possible to update this patch for 1.x? The patch link is here: http://code.google.com/p/raqm/source/browse/trunk/patches/wine_libicu_bidi_arabic-shaping.patch?r=20 Thanks Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote on 2 Jan 2009, 03:05 AM: Subject: Re: wine-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 117>2009/1/1 Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com>: >> Hi Dohan, >> >> Here is a random program to test: >> http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273 >> > >I cannot find the download link! My Arabic is terrible (I know the >letters, but not many words). I tried looking for something that was >phonetically similar to either "hered" or "horada" (download in >Hebrew) or "download", but found none. Can you link to the exe >directly? > >> I use the following commands to get it working, in addition to the fonts >> (more than just Tahoma, not sure which other one) from a Windows system >with >> Arabic locale: >> >> LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine program.exe >> >> The characters come up, but not attached. >> > >I see that you are posting from a non-UTF-8 system (that is why I have >the alphabet in my sig, to catch this exactly!). You might want to >configure your system for UTF-8 before going any further. In a >terminal, please run the locale command and post it's output. Which >version of Arabic do you use (ie, where are you from)? > >> Thanks for the help. >> > >Happily! > >-- >Dotan Cohen > >http://what-is-what.com >http://gibberish.co.il > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-? -??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?????-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-? -??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-?? >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com