[tlug] Japanese in Wine??

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

OS is Kubuntu 8.10 AMD64.

Since my request for help on configuring my Pioneer TF-FS55M handset 
went unanswered on three separate fora, I decided to go ahead and just 
install the maker's WIN driver using WINE.

It would appear that the installation was successful ... except for one 
tiny little WINE problem ... sucker can't seem to be able to read 
Japanese or Unicode.  I have screen after screen of question marks where 
kana and kanji ought to be.  The end result is that I cannot complete 
proper configuration.

Does anyone have a clue how to get WINE to be multilingual?  As for 
options, I have WIN XP running E<->J in VBox, but cannot set up the 
Skype handset nor install the drivers natively ... or so it would seem 
... just in case someone has an answer to that issue ...

--
CL