wine users - Sep 2008 - character encoding for other languages besides english?

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?

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

cheers for the help vit.

now that fix also apply even when im executing an .exe? eg if it has greek text
in it?