It's impossible to type in cyrillic to the program running under wine when using UTF8 locale. Latin characters are OK. When trying to run apps under wine from virtual terminal, it prints: ddc@czarkerlaptop ~ $ LC_ALL="ru_RU" wine "C:\Program files\veda\cons.exe" Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: no element found Fontconfig error: "conf.d", line 1: no element found err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 06DA (Cyrillic_ze) : err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx (virtKey=50,scanCode=19,keycode=21,state=2000) err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 06C1 (Cyrillic_a) : err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx (virtKey=46,scanCode=21,keycode=29,state=2000) err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 06CB (Cyrillic_ka) : err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx (virtKey=52,scanCode=13,keycode=1B,state=2000) err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 06CF (Cyrillic_o) : err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx (virtKey=4A,scanCode=24,keycode=2C,state=2000) err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 06CE (Cyrillic_en) : err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx (virtKey=59,scanCode=15,keycode=1D,state=2000) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LC_ALL="ru_RU" wine /path/and/name/of/app 2. Switch to Cyrillic input 3. Type whatever You want Actual Results: No chars are printed in 'wined' app. Expected Results: Normal cyrillic input ddc@czarkerlaptop ~ $ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdr clamav crypt cups curl dga dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash ftp gcj gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads jpeg kde kerberos lcms libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mime ming mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ocaml offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic png python qt readline samba sdl slang spell ssl subversion svg tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wifi wmf xine xml xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
please file a bug on the upstream wine bugzilla: http://bugs.winehq.org/ and tell us how it goes ;)
Well, I filled it at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3504
let us know how it goes