Re: [tlug] Jp Text Input w/Wine

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Lyle H Saxon wrote:

> Another warning.  I have been experimenting with WINE a little on Kubuntu 7.04.
>
> I got IrfanView working, and also English OpenOffice (stop the
> missiles - it's a test box and I tried it out just to see if it would
> work, and also because the default OpenOffice is the Japanese version)
> and EditPad Pro.  Both EditPad Pro and OpenOffice work, but if you
> activate Japanese text input you get flashing boxes, instability and
> crashing applications.

I received the following about two weeks ago as part of an exchange 
about similar problems with Wine on another list.

I have also been playing with Kubuntu 7.04, which is why the questions 
about a lack of Japanese support in Xandros has stopped ... at least 
temporarily.

DanKegel wrote:
>
> Please retest with wine-0.9.43 when it comes out, and
> file bugs at http://bugs.winehq.org for any bugs you find.
> We've been working on internationalization lately.
> For instance, we fixed a couple bugs in IME support,
> and a crash bug that happened when you delete files
> with unicode filenames (how embarassing).  And
> we're just now adding font configuration options to
> winecfg that should help folks who have good asian
> fonts, but not the ones that their windows apps expected.
>
> For the record, I work for Google, and I'm involved in Wine
> partly because I'm working on Picasa for Linux.
> - Dan

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CL