German umlauts not working

Questions about Wine on Linux
Locked
owly
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:06 pm

German umlauts not working

Post by owly »

if I starting "wine cmd" I can use any german umlauts (äöüßÄÖÜ) without any problems
but if I using any gui application, like notepad, explorer etc, any german umlauts did not work, keyboard is doing nothing

I only can use german umlauts, if I copy/paste this from a native linux application to the wine window.
What's broken with my wine installation? how can I fix this?
User avatar
DarkShadow44
Level 8
Level 8
Posts: 1207
Joined: Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:39 pm

Re: German umlauts not working

Post by DarkShadow44 »

You mean you press the keys but no characters appear in notepad? That's odd, it works perfectly fine for me.
What wine version are you using? What desktop environment? Are you using wayland or x11?
owly
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:06 pm

Re: German umlauts not working

Post by owly »

Yes, key press nothing happens for üäöß-keys

I'm using Debian 9 with XFCE Desktop with x11
Wine 1.8.7-2 (Debian9 Standard)
User avatar
DarkShadow44
Level 8
Level 8
Posts: 1207
Joined: Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:39 pm

Re: German umlauts not working

Post by DarkShadow44 »

Can you please retry with wine-3.x? Your wine version is already ancient.
owly
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 4
Joined: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:06 pm

Re: German umlauts not working

Post by owly »

Sorry, I took a wrong look.
I told the debian package version, now I use wine --version to get the right one: v3.0
Locked