BiDi Support

Ramaddan · Post by **Ramaddan** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:39 pm

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem.
I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine.
In order to do so, I run:
LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe
The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content
the program might have comes out blank, nothing.
I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but
nothing comes out in the program itself.
Thanks for the help.

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Ramaddan · Post by **Ramaddan** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:43 pm

Hi,
Sorry, forgot to mention I use Ubuntu Intrepid.
Thanks.
Ramaddan <[email protected]> wrote on 30 Dec 2008, 07:38 PM:
Subject: BiDi Support
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem.
I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine.
In order to do so, I run:
LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe
The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content
the program might have comes out blank, nothing.
I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but
nothing comes out in the program itself.
Thanks for the help.
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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:53 pm

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ramaddan <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem.
I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine.
In order to do so, I run:
LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe
The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content
the program might have comes out blank, nothing.
I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but
nothing comes out in the program itself.
Thanks for the help.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609

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Ramaddan · Post by **Ramaddan** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:58 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the link.

I saw that before, but I though the issue I had was different.

The link seems to mostly be about the characters not rendering properly.

The issue I have is not the characters not rendering properly, but not even
showing up, completely blank.

Only the title bar shows up, and it shows up rendered properly.

Should I still try the fix mentioned in the link, about using the native
usp10.dll?

Thanks

Austin English <[email protected]> wrote on 30 Dec 2008, 07:52 PM:
Subject: Re: [Wine] BiDi Support

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ramaddan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem.
I am trying to install an Arabic program using wine.
In order to do so, I run:
LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine install.exe
The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content
the program might have comes out blank, nothing.
I just could not figure out why it came out right in the title bar, but
nothing comes out in the program itself.
Thanks for the help.

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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:48 pm

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Ramaddan <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the link.

I saw that before, but I though the issue I had was different.

The link seems to mostly be about the characters not rendering properly.

The issue I have is not the characters not rendering properly, but not even
showing up, completely blank.

Only the title bar shows up, and it shows up rendered properly.

Should I still try the fix mentioned in the link, about using the native
usp10.dll?

Can't hurt.

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:02 pm

Ramaddan wrote:The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever content
the program might have comes out blank, nothing.

Wine's fonts don't have Arabic glyphs (character shapes). You might want to install some windows fonts into your system.

Ramaddan · Post by **Ramaddan** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:40 pm

Hi Dohan,

Try copy and pasting this instead. I noticed when if you click it adds
something else:
http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273

As for my locale, I use utf-8, but the email website I use it set to
something else.

I have no idea why they even have different Arabic version, as they seem
all the same to me when I use them,
at least the ones the one from the Middle East.

I just use the SA (Saudi Arabia) one, just because I don't really see any
difference.

I found an arabic site that mentioned a patch was needed for wine to add
character reordering for Arabic using an IBM released code,
and it seems to work, but the problem is, it was made for wine 9.x, and it
does not work for wine 1.x

I tried to look at the code, and there seems to be major differences in
some cases.

Is it possible to update this patch for 1.x?

The patch link is here:
http://code.google.com/p/raqm/source/br ... patch?r=20

Thanks

Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote on 2 Jan 2009, 03:05 AM:
Subject: Re: wine-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 117

2009/1/1 Ramaddan <[email protected]>:
Hi Dohan,

Here is a random program to test:
http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273

I cannot find the download link! My Arabic is terrible (I know the
letters, but not many words). I tried looking for something that was
phonetically similar to either "hered" or "horada" (download in
Hebrew) or "download", but found none. Can you link to the exe
directly?

I use the following commands to get it working, in addition to the fonts
(more than just Tahoma, not sure which other one) from a Windows system
with
Arabic locale:

LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine program.exe

The characters come up, but not attached.

I see that you are posting from a non-UTF-8 system (that is why I have
the alphabet in my sig, to catch this exactly!). You might want to
configure your system for UTF-8 before going any further. In a
terminal, please run the locale command and post it's output. Which
version of Arabic do you use (ie, where are you from)?

Thanks for the help.

Happily!

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