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Hi,

I Installed Office 2007 via CrossOver, everything works fine except when I try to open a file, all file names with Unicode characters (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, ...) are shown with unrecognizable characters.

and when I want to save as a file, I can not type the file name in those languages.
Is there any way to fix this problem? Or CrossOver does not support Unicode characters at all?

Edited:
It seems I can not type any of those characters into any text box and excel cells. It's not only Open/Save dialog.

Thanks in advance,
Hadi

The first thing I would try is to adjust the LANG environment variable of the bottle to match one of the languages (I believe adjusting this setting only respects one language at a time). The following link describes how to adjust the LANG variable inside "cxbottle.conf"

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/faq/cxoffice62_choosedifferentlanguage

If you're using OS X 10.7, the easiest way to get to this file is to go to Configure>Manage Bottles, highlight the bottle in question, and then go to Advanced>Open C: Drive in Finder. You'll find "cxbottle.conf" on the same level as "drive_c".

Another thing you could try is moving the "fonts" folder out of the Office 2007 bottle. You can do this by going to Crossover's Configure>Manage Bottles menu, highlighting the bottle, and then go to Advanced>Open C: Drive in Finder. Browse to drive_c/windows/fonts, and move that "fonts" directory to your Desktop.

When you now launch Office 2007, Crossover will be forced to use only Mac system fonts for font calls from the program.

Thanks Jack for reply, I tried moving fonts folder out of the bottle, but it didn't work for me. Then tried to add LANG variable but Arabic or Persian (Farsi) were not in supported locale list.
When I was looking in cxbottle.conf file there was a variable for encoding:
"Encoding" = "UTF-8"
I wonder how is it possible for the environment encoding to be UTF-8 but does not support non-western characters??
I wanted to know DOES CrossOver support unicode? or is there anyway to make it support Arabic or Persian keyboard??

Thanks,

Hadi

CrossOver does support Unicode, assuming the Windows program itself does. Presumably, Office 2007 does.

However, CrossOver's support for right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic is still under development. We expect future releases of CrossOver to have much better support than CrossOver 10.x.

Chinese should work properly, though.

To narrow down the scope of the problem, you should test with the Notepad program that's built into CrossOver. From the Programs menu, select Run Command. Select any bottle. For the command, type "notepad". Click Run. See if typing in your desired language works in Notepad and its file dialog.

Another test to try to narrow things down is to copy text from a Mac-native application (e.g. TextEdit) and paste it into a Windows program running in CrossOver. That eliminates keyboard input as a possible contribution to the problem. Also, try copying some incorrectly-displayed text from the Windows program and pasting to the Mac-native application. If it pastes correctly, then that means the problem is only in displaying the text -- it's actually stored correctly.

Thank you so much, It seems the problem is CrossOver does not support Arabic or Persian keyboard. I'll wait for the next version.

Hadi