Multilingual application on Mac OS X

[SunLight]

I have installed wine package from http://thisismyinter.net/?p=29 on Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. It works, except this http://www.thediction.com/ program don't accept Bulgarian input.
I have successfully use it on Linux with "LANG=bg_BG.CP1251 wine Diction.exe", when that locale is installed. I don't know how to achieve this on Mac. "LANG=bg_BG.UTF8 wine Diction.exe" dos not work, either CrossOver-6.2.1-demo.

Thanks!

[mikolajz]

I don't have a Mac but I guess it have some control panel for regional settings where you can choose the Bulgarian locale. This should work. I don't know if it is possible to change the locale for only one application on a Mac. However, you could also try "LC_ALL=bg_BG wine Diction.exe" or "LC_CTYPE=bg_BG wine Diction.exe". Maybe it will work.

[mikolajz]

I forgot to add, that the correct locale line under most Linux distributions should be LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8 . The last item should be the Linux charset (which is nearly always UTF-8) so that Wine is able to understand e.g. file names with native characters. The Windows charset will be chosen by Wine automatically from the language/contry part (e.g. for Bulgarian it will be CP1251).

[SunLight]

I don't have a Mac but I guess it have some control panel for regional settings where you can choose the Bulgarian locale.

There is a list, where to specify preferable interface language of applications.
And keyboard layout switch. Nothing more on the surface. I assume OS X use UTF8 locale, which should be sufficient, but whether "LANG=" work at all ?

I will give it another chance, with this options, very soon.

I forgot to add, that the correct locale line under most Linux distributions should be LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8

Last time I try, only CP1251 work. Looks like my error. I know that LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8 is far more preferable.

[SunLight]

It is working! Bulgarian input work with X11's terminal. There is a lot more to do, but I got an idea where is the problem. I'll give more details when find clear solution.

[SunLight]

Start multilingual application from Apple's Terminal:
1. Start Terminal from Finder menu>Go>Applications>Utilities>Terminal
2. Open Terminal preferences from Terminal menu>Preferences>Settings>Advanced
3. Untick "Set LANG environmet variable on startup". Doing so will make some confusion with non english chars, but this is minor side efect.
4. Now "LANG=xx_YY.UTF-8 /Application/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin/wine program.exe" will work.

Better approach using AppleScript:
1. Open Script Editor from Finder menu>Go>Applications>AppleScript>Script Editor
2. Copy & Paste the folowing:

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try
	do shell script "cd ~/programdir; LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8 /Applications/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin/wine program.exe"
end try

3. Go to Script Editor menu>Save As... Name it, choose Application from "File Format" menu, untick "Startup Screen". Save it. After that copy it to Applications folder. This will start wine/windows program with one click.

Notes:
It is good idea to tick "Follow system keyboard layout". It is in X11's menu>X11>Preferences>Input. X11 will start with your wine/windows program.
"cd ~/programdir" - this assume that program.exe is installed in programdir, which is located in your home directory. Often going there is required for proper operation. It is important to execute commands with one "do shell script".
"try-end try" block will protect script from any errors, that may (and will) occur.

Special thanks to mikolajz. You motivate me to work on a problem.