[Bug 47674] New: Changing current system locale for non-Unicode programs ( Maktabah Shamela - arabic language not showing properly)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47674

Bug ID: 47674
           Summary: Changing current system locale for non-Unicode
                    programs (Maktabah Shamela - arabic language not
                    showing properly)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.8.6
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

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Greeting you.

Im using MacOS High Sierra. Second day..
I have installed Wine 1.8.6 (then tried 4.0.1)

I need this for executing program named Maktabah Shamela which is also in your
appDB:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=19409

APP Launched with NO Problems. BUT. It doesn't recognize arabic letters
properly.

So you can look there in detailed informations about application (click 3.64)
there are test results.

You can see Workarounds for application there:
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First of all, to get it display Arabic language properly, follow the
instructions here : https://abuhirr.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/syamilah/

Notice that you may have to uncomment the line "ar_SA.UTF-8" in you
/etc/locale.gen and to run "sudo locale-gen".)

Run "winetricks wsh57 vcrun6".
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So. These workarounds as I understand all for linux/ubuntu.

But I cant do it on my Mac.
Generally this application has problem with unicode. In WINDOWS it requires
changing current language for non-unicode programs to Arabic (Saudi Arabia). So
that UTF-8 will read properly.

I have tried many ways to configure this.

winetricks - allfonts / corefonts;
DOS > intl.cp configuration to ar-SA;
registry> machine/system/currentcontrolset/control/nls/locale..
or codepage..
or USER/control panel/international/local..

tried to ad .ttf files manually;

changed safari/view/unicode/ to utf-8 and etc.. forget how much. Working about
more than 10 hours. Nothing WORKS. I will add the proper view of app, and the
one is in my Wine/MacOS.

Any ideas?

[Bug 47674] Changing current system locale for non-Unicode programs ( Maktabah Shamela - arabic language not showing properly)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47674

--- Comment #1 from Nijat Dadashov  ---
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[Bug 47674] Changing current system locale for non-Unicode programs ( Maktabah Shamela - arabic language not showing properly)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47674

--- Comment #2 from Rafał Mużyło  ---
(a warning: might be a bit ranty)

TBH, this looks more like a user problem, than an actual wine bug.

AFAIU both the entry in appdb and the blog are pretty much saying that as long
as you've got the proper fonts, only thing needed is setting LANG to ar_SA.utf8
(they set LC_ALL, but (on Linux) unless you've got some of the other LC_ vars
set, that's not necessary (LC_ALL is simply the final override)).

Not sure how that translates to MacOS. AFAIK, it's Unix-based, so similar
should work.

Given that the screenshot looks like it's full of classic mojibake, I'd say
locale var isn't getting passed to wine. wine needs a proper locale set, so it
can translate it to a relevant Windows codepage - without that current codepage
<-> UTF16 conversions go wrong across API.

Try to run the app from the terminal while setting the locale - just make sure
that locale is actually available.

[Bug 47674] Changing current system locale for non-Unicode programs ( Maktabah Shamela - arabic language not showing properly)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47674

--- Comment #3 from Ken Thomases  ---
The issue is that the Mac C libraries only have a fairly narrow selection of
installed locales.  In particular, it doesn't support Arabic locales.  I don't
know if it's possible to install third-party ones.

There's much wider support for locales in the higher-level libraries and
frameworks, which is what most Mac software uses.

Because Wine uses the C library's locale functionality to query the locale,
it's not understanding ar_SA.UTF-8 and falling back on the C locale (albeit
with UTF-8 character encoding).  Wine doesn't rely much on the C library's
locale functionality other than detecting the system locale settings, though. 
So, if you configure it with the desired locale in other ways, things should
work.

In particular, there's drive_c/windows/win.ini in the prefix and the registry
settings under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International].  Try
configuring those for Saudi Arabia/Arabic.