http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3992
Summary: arabic (and probably other RTL languages) dont render correctly in Notepad Product: Wine Version: 0.9.1. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: maysara_a_a@yahoo.com
Trying to write arabic in notepad doesn't render correctly at all, changing the window and getting back to it makes things a little better(you can read seperate characters), but still doesn't do the shaping or binding, and thus it unusable as an editor (This issue probably affects lots of other stuff related to RTL).
To duplicate, just open notepad in wine, set keyboard layout to arabic and type anything in notepad.starting from the letter "a" to "l", things should look like: ÔÓíÈáÇÊäã
so try to press those keys and look how it looks.then switch to another window , then get back to notepad, see how it looks again, in both cases its not the desired behaviour.