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his is a shell script to solve the locale problems of Wine. Using it, you can launch an application and properly display Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese Simplified or Chinese Traditional type. They will run with the same text display as they do on Windows–guaranteed.

The instructions are rather complicated, and much of it comes from post #407 of this Web site. If you’ve followed the directions there, this can be applied on top of it. If you didn’t follow those directions, follow the simplified (but still pretty complicated) ones in the included INSTALL file. You can also check the CJK Wine HOWTO in the Ubuntu forum. This thread is now out of date, because as of version 0.31, WineLocale is no longer CJK-only.

WineLocale has only been tested on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Despite the name, it is in no way endorsed by the Wine development team. In fact, I’m so unpopular, they probably don’t and will never know about this handy tool. The name is just a play on Microsoft’s AppLocale utility which does the same thing on Windows systems.

If you create any new font schemes, feel free to email them to me. I’ll pack them in if I do any updated releases.

There are currently no known bugs.

Files

• WineLocale 0.41
  The WineLocale shell script and related registry files. A copy of the installation directions is in INSTALL. The GNU General Public License is contained in LICENSE.

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