Problem with non-english input

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idoh
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Problem with non-english input

Post by idoh »

Hi,

I am having an issue related to non-english keyboard input. When I launch notepad by:

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$ wine notepad 
it normally opens but I can type only English letters.
When I change to some other language, let's say Hebrew, and try to type in - nothing happens. If I paste the Hebrew text from the clipboard it works fine.
So, I think the problem has something to do with the keyboard's input.
It happens also with other languages, like Arabic or Russian.

I am trying to locate the reason for this problem but I don't know where to start. I will appreciate your help in debugging this issue.
I am using Debian:

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
Release:	11-updates
Codename:	n/a
and Gnome GUI. My wine version:

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$ wine --version
wine-7.0
The terminal output while running notepad is:

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$ wine notepad
007c:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

0034:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
00fc:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
00fc:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x249640, 1): stub
00fc:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0001004E, 00249640): stub
007c:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x25c860, 0): stub
007c:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0000000000010020, 000000000025C860): stub
There are no new terminal messages when I am trying to type non-english letters.
idoh
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Re: Problem with non-english input

Post by idoh »

Well, it was simple...

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LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 wine notepad
sorted this out
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