Hi,
I have a pretty good estimate of what needs to be done to get Word supported in Hebrew. The current problems have to do with Word calling "GetKeyboardLang" after each character, and using the result as a basis for interpreting each received character. Currently, this function just returns the system locale, which causes Word to assume each and every letter is a Hebrew one, even the English ones. The results are pretty catastrophic, as people have reported (typing "Hi there everyone" typically results in the screen showing "Hthere everyone i", with "yone" highlighted with green to say it has syntax correction to suggest. The correct is to replace "there" with "they're").
I have been itching to do an overhaul of the Wine keyboard handling for some time. I think the current scheme is overly complicated, and causes problems. This is a major task, but I may be able to recrute some local help. I am a bit worried, however, about the fact that some other people may also working on a similar task at the moment. I know Dmitry said in the past he is rennovating the keyboard a little, and I know codeweavers still hold a patch that will allow UTF-8 input locale to work.
I would like to coordinate the effort. If anyone is working on the keyboard right now, please let me know.
Shachar