http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9726
--- Comment #18 from Alon Bar-Lev alon.barlev@gmail.com 2007-09-23 00:44:05 --- Found!
For some strange reason if LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are not he_IL.utf8, wine does not select the Hebrew locale... Setting LC_ALL and LANG to he_IL.utf8 solves this, but I don't think this is standard behavior... I think only the LANG variable should be taken into account.
Now, notepad with system font works, and ies4linux works!
But notepad doesn't behave in BIDI manner as editor and also in file dialogs שלום becomes םולש.
ie6 works with BIDI.
Thanks!