WeChat

Thanks it works

Steps:
1. Download wechat installer exe from their website.
2. Setup clean wine prefix
2a. export WINEPREFIX="/home//.wineprefixes/wechat"
2b. mkdir -p /home//.wineprefixes/others
2c. export WINEARCH="win32"
2d. winetricks msls31 ole32 riched20 riched32 [riched32 may not be necessary]
2e. install relevant fonts (corefonts cjkfonts mscorefonts noto-fonts-cjk) [im not sure which are necessary yet]
3. install wechat exe under the created wine prefix
4. Change locale to LC_ALL="zh_CN.UTF8"
5. Can use this command in the same terminal using the exported wineprefix we defined earlier: LC_ALL="zh_CN.UTF8" wine WeChat.exe

I can paste text in Chinese characters , but I cannot use the ibus input method to write messages in another language, only English. Strange note: If I paste Chinese characters in the text box, they display fine. However, if I type an English message, and paste a Chinese characters in the box, it displays each character as a "tofu" square or in a slightly different font.
I am looking for a way to write in a different language in a Wine environment under Linux.

See my thread: forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31866&e=0&sid=05fcc6ecee1a32a1d1a0022379fa336a

If you find your wechat cannot display text in dialoge box, then you either fail to use a WIN32 version wine or didn't override riched20.dll.

Step ONE: Make sure to use a CLEAN WIN32 wineprefix.

1. export WINEPREFIX="/home//.wineprefixes/wechat"
2. mkdir -p /home//.wineprefixes/others
3. export WINEARCH="win32"

STEP TWO: add components:
winetricks msls31 ole32 riched20

STEP THREE:
install wechat

thanks it works

When I type to enter text it doesn't show. Although its being typed.

wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1)

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Do you have riched20 overridden by winetricks?

No.

Although After your comment I tried overriding it with following results:

- native, builtin ==> WeChat Works but invisible Text in Composing area
- builtin, native ==> Same as above
- builtin ==> Same as above
- native ==> WeChat Crashes after login and return backs to login window.

That's weird. What is your WeChat version?

WeChat Version: 2.6.4.38

Well, my WeChat auto-upgraded to that version and it is all OK. Perhaps you need to override more riched*.dll files and trying them out?

WeChat Version: 2.6.4.56

Tried riched20.dll and riched32.dll with different settings; none worked.

on setting `riched20.dll` to `native` following error is logged in terminal:

[0928/072811:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(158)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
0009:err:module:find_forwarded_export module not found for forward 'riched20.CreateTextServices' used by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msftedit.dll"

I remembered that my Wine version is still 3.9 and I have not upgraded it for a long time; I don't know whether this is the reason

Issue fixed I used winetricks and installed riched20.dll

I am facing exactly the same problem with winehq-staging 3.18 with WeChat 2.6.4.56.

First, winetricks is now unable to install riched20.dll probably because the file W2KSP4_EN.EXE is no longer available.

But I have Windows 7, so I can copy riched20.dll to wine, but actually wine already comes with it: the riched20.dll in wine's windows/system32 is exactly the same as the copy in Windows 7. Does it mean that I need riched20.dll from somewhere else? The size of mine is 65580. What's yours?

Fixed it! I was using the winetricks provided by ubuntu. After installing the latest version from its website, it can download riched20.dll and install it properly and then everything works fine.

All right, disregard my docker questions. The problem got solved by copying Windows 7 fonts to the drive_c\windows\fonts directory.

However, there seems to be a problem somewhere, as the bug discussion I posted a link to essentially says that wine should be able to pick up WenQuanYi ZenHei as a default Chinese font, but for some reason doesn't.

Anyway, the problem is now solved for me.

I don't understand where to get them.
Can't you install microsoft core fonts right into the container with winetrincks?

They are proprietary and it is illegal to post a publicly available download site for those fonts. One way to get them is to copy those from a genuine Windows copy. However, if you do not frequently use Chinese the fonts won't be a real issue.

Are you sure the corefonts package is not enough?

Also, could you post a full docker build command, because my docker doesn't create an image called 'wine', is just gives a random hash name.

$ docker build -f WeChat.Dockerfile .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 2.56kB
Step 1/4 : FROM fedora:27
---> 9110ae7f579f
Step 2/4 : RUN useradd -U -m user; curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/winehq.repo dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/27/winehq.repo; dnf install -y winehq-devel $(dnf repoquery -q --requires winetricks | grep -v ^wine) glx-utils mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64 mesa-dri-drivers.i686 /usr/bin/ntlm_auth glibc-langpack-zh langpacks-zh_CN; dnf clean all; curl -vLo /usr/local/bin/winetricks raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks; mkdir -p /opt/wine-devel/share/wine/mono /opt/wine-devel/share/wine/gecko; cd /opt/wine-devel/share/wine/mono; curl -vLOJ dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-mono/4.7.1/wine-mono-4.7.1.msi; cd /opt/wine-devel/share/wine/gecko; curl -vLOJ dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86_64.msi; curl -vLOJ dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86.msi
---> Using cache
---> c479a24b5b6a
Step 3/4 : USER user
---> Using cache
---> 1327c6bcff4b
Step 4/4 : WORKDIR /home/user
---> Using cache
---> a363de9df2a6
Successfully built a363de9df2a6

$ docker run --rm -it -v /tmp/.X11-unix/X0:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 --device=/dev/dri --security-opt="no-new-privileges" --ipc=host --env WINEARCH=win32 --env DISPLAY=:0 --env XMODIFIERS=@im=scim --env LANG=zh_CN --env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 a363de9df2a6 bash
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (zh_CN.UTF-8)
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (zh_CN.UTF-8)
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (zh_CN.UTF-8)
[ user@7d6265e8e12f ~]$ echo $LC_ALL
zh_CN.UTF-8
[ user@7d6265e8e12f ~]$ winetricks winxp riched20 ole32
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (zh_CN.UTF-8)
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wineserver not found!
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[ user@7d6265e8e12f ~]$ wine WechatSetup.exe
bash: wine: command not found

Can you replace all semicolons after the RUN command with && and post your log here? I suggest that the dnf command failed

You may also run docker run --rm --user 0 -it a363de9df2a6 dnf history info 2 and post the output here

The corefonts does not contain any Chinese fonts, which are essential for me.

Use docker build -t wine . to tag an image. Search "tagged as wine" in my extra comments section

So, for me Wechat runs, I'm able to type messages and receive messages, but if I run it with LC_ALL=C, I see no Chinese and Russian fonts. If I run it with LC_ALL=ru_RU, I cannot see Chinese. If I run it with LC_ALL=zh_TW, I see some Chinese but not all, and also no Russian. If I run it as LC_ALL=zh_CN, I don't see anything. Literally, not even 'tofu boxes', just completely empty spaces.

What is the language of your host system, Russian? My messages are all in Simplified Chinese and LC_ALL=zh_CN works for me

There ARE actually some scenarios when some characters cannot be displayed correctly, but it is rare. By the way, I copied all fonts from my Windows installation to my Linux box

No, the LANG is en_US.UTF-8, and LC_COLLATE=C.

I feel that the problem is somewhere in /etc/fonts/*

I also installed webcore-fonts globally and with winetricks.

Could you post your /etc/fonts/* as an archive somewhere?

OK, just run `docker run --rm -it fedora:27 bash` and you can browse the filesystem under that container, including `/etc/fonts`. No modification has been made by me

I've used these instructions as a basis for a method to install WeChat into an F27 VM.
谢谢你