Hebrew, Wine and Ubuntu

Originally published on the old depletionmode / 2of1 blog (archived copy).

If you’re having problems with Hebrew text coming up all garbled with Wine under Ubuntu, here’s the solution:

1. Install the Hebrew language pack:
   sudo apt-get install language-pack-he
2. Install Tahoma fonts from Microsoft:
   wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe && wine tahoma32.exe
3. Execute application using LANG environment variable:
   LANG=”he_IL.UTF-8″ wine