[Bug 3057] New: MS Word doesn't work well with mixed language input

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3057

           Summary: MS Word doesn't work well with mixed language input
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-x11driver
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
        ReportedBy: krakov(a)gmail.com


X11DRV_ KeyboardLayout functions not working / working incorrectly

X11DRV_GetKeyboardLayout and X11DRV_GetKeyboardLayoutList work not as specified
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/WinUI...,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui...).
Other KeyboardLayout functions are stubs.

GetKeyboardLayout doesn't return current XKB keyboard layout / group - it
returns the layout of the curent locale, of all things.

Affected programs: Microsoft Word,Powerpoint (2000, maybe other version)
* Word decides paragraph language - thus spell checker to apply, paragraph
direction (right-to-left/left-to-right) and other properties - by the return
value of GetKeyboardLayout. Changing language of input doesn't change Word's
handling. Even using setxkbmap to change the map doesn't work, as the layout is
decided by locale. 
* Trying to use Word under any RTL locale as Hebrew makes any LTR text rendered
backwards and caret location incorrect. The language of a paragraph can be
specified manually, but it keeps changing back any time Word checks the keyboard
layout. 
* Spell checker sometimes fails to decide which dictionary to use when writing
mixed language text.
* List of possible languages is incorrect.
* Changing language using the language applet in the Word toolbar doesn't work.

Steps to reproduce:
* export LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
* run Word
* try writing in English

[ Note: might not mess paragraph directions if Word version is installed without
BiDi support ? ]

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