I have been running Word 97 since several versions of Wine now (fake windows install), but I had no success with Excel 97. I could install it, but it froze when I opened the files menu.
But now even Excel works, as far as I can say now without serious flaws and without too much fumbling with dlloverrides for native dlls - kudos!
But an old issue seems to have returned: In Word (or Excel), I can't enter German special characters like the notorious Umlauts. There is a workaround: Entering
export LANG=de_DE
before calling the applications (or using an appropriate tiny script) to change the Redhat 9 default setting which here is LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.
Some Wine versions ago, the characters issue was solved, but now it seems to be back?
Klaus
Hi Klaus,
There are several possible causes for this, but we may need to know something first. Can you type these characters in notepad (without setting LANG)?
Also, run "xev" (a native app), and type Umlauts. You will get a bunch of output on the console from which you ran xev. Some of them should be notification of a message "Keypress event". Here is an example of pressing the key "a":
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
root 0x7b, subw 0x0, time 217472847, (168,-13), root:(1266,7),
state 0x10, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 characters: "a"
KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x7b, subw 0x0, time 217472917, (168,-13), root:(1266,7), state 0x10, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: "a"
You will notice that there is an "a" inside quotes in the last line of each message. Please identify the apropriate event, and see whether the Umlaut appears between the quotes. Depending on whether or not it's there, your problem may have to do with the Unix locale, or with Word acting up. Hitherto, I have been under the impression that only BiDi languages (Arabic, Hebrew) are affected, but I may have been wrong on that one.
Shachar
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