Re: MultiByteToWideCharacter problem with CP 950 (Traditional Chinese)

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:49:13AM +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
> 1st problem: (pre-existing)
> No comments.
> 2nd problem: (regression)
>
> There's another serious problem, which is a regression.  Starting Office 
> 2000 (any language)with the Big5 code page as below, causes serious 
> trouble with my X server (X.org 6.7.0).  The X cpu usage goes to 95%, 
> and the install hangs, more or less.
>
> LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5 wine m:\setup
>
> The problem happens whether or not the Chinese truetype font is installed.
> This probably is the same issue that has prevented success for any attempt
> to use some relatively recent Wine versions on the notebook of my girlfriend
> (P3/450, Debian, Chinese simplified, non-Unicode setup: GB2312, XF86 4.3.x):
> whenever I started Wine, everything slowed to a crawl and I had veritable
> trouble trying to kill it (definitely points towards XF86 overload).

I could offer to do some tests if need be.
Haven't tried the new "non-official" Debian Wine packages, BTW.

Andreas Mohr