http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13974
--- Comment #8 from Lei Zhang thestig@google.com 2008-07-08 18:20:55 --- Curious, you're on Slackware with KDE, why did you configure your keyboard input with gtk and not through KDE's control center?
Two more things: - can you run the "locale" command from a terminal and paste the output? - can you reproduce this problem in wine's notepad?