MS Office in Wine: Hebrew backwards

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:33 pm

I must install MS Office in Wine on Ubuntu Linux. It installs fine,
but the Hebrew is backwards. Googling the problem led me to this
video, which illustrates the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19I2qaykE6w

Does anyone know how to fix this? I am on a full UTF-8 Hebrew locale,
if that is relevant. I installed MS Office 2003 in English on Kubuntu
8.04. Thanks in advance.

$ wine --version
wine-1.0

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James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:58 pm

Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> at Sent: Sep 2, 2008 4:22 PM (MST) wrote about [Wine] MS Office in Wine: Hebrew backwards

I must install MS Office in Wine on Ubuntu Linux. It installs fine,
but the Hebrew is backwards. Googling the problem led me to this
video, which illustrates the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19I2qaykE6w

Does anyone know how to fix this? I am on a full UTF-8 Hebrew locale,
if that is relevant. I installed MS Office 2003 in English on Kubuntu
8.04.

Isn't there a version of MS Office in Hebrew? Maybe the English version is not able, under Wine, to detect the language change and thus change from Left to Right to Right to Left.

I will state that Hebrew documents under Wine with e-Sword do display correctly as I have a Hebrew bible that I loaded to make sure this worked.

James McKenzie

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:49 am

2008/9/2 James Mckenzie <[email protected]>:

Isn't there a version of MS Office in Hebrew?

There is a Hebrew version, but I only have the English version
legally. I could pirate the Hebrew version with no bad conscious, as I
have a legal copy of the English language software that I would then
be not using, but I wanted to avoid that. And purchasing a new copy is
very far out of the question!

Maybe the English version is not
able, under Wine, to detect the language change and thus change from Left to
Right to Right to Left.

They do just fine on English language installations of MS Windows,
though those seem to be Hebrew-Enabled versions. Can Wine be made
Hebrew-enabled? I personally do not know what that would take.

I will state that Hebrew documents under Wine with e-Sword do display correctly
as I have a Hebrew bible that I loaded to make sure this worked.

There are Sword clients for Linux. Shall I suggest a few? Write me
off-list so that we can keep this thread on topic.

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mp · Post by mp » Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:23 am

I can confirim this also happens in the Hebrew version of Office (Office XP).
Searching BIDI (Bi Directional) on the Wine WIKI brought up some kind of issue with ICU in configuring and compiling wine from May 2008, but I could find no test for ICU in the configure script (from the latest git tip). Using native riched20.dll and riched32.dll did not improve the situation.

Note that notepad DOES correctly display hebrew, so this is an Office specific behaviour. What logs would help?