wine users - Aug 2010 - Use a different character set for a specific program on wine

There is a feature in Windows where you tell it (in Regional and Language
Settings in XP, e.g.) to use a specific encoding for non-Unicode programs.

That's my issue. I am storing Arabic using cp1256/windows-1256 in a remote
database. This is not Unicode; Arabic characters are stored in the 128-255 range
of extended ASCII. The program (an electronic health records program) will
display garbage by default if you don't set the encoding correctly in which
to represent the data. If you set the encoding correctly, you see meaningful
Arabic.

What wine currently does is that it displays the data in ISO-8856-1 encoding (my
best guess from what I am seeing).

Here's the Question: How can you tell wine to use a specific character set
for a non-Unicode enabled program?

I searched online and on this website and couldn't find an answer. So I am
posting here.

Sam

shabiel wrote:
> Here's the Question: How can you tell wine to use a specific character
set for a non-Unicode enabled program?
You can't choose a specific encoding. What you can do is to set locale that
uses your encoding. Ex:

Code:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wine winecfg


Will set English locale and make Wine use cp1252 as default code-page.