Using RTL languages with MS Office in Wine 1.4
Solution 1:
If I recall correctly, you can use usp10.dll to make RTL fonts to display properly. This dll can be downloaded via winetricks. Also, if you install office using PlayOnLinux, this dll will be included by default.
If you want to make the RTL and LTR icons appear in office programs, you should first install Arabic, Herbew, ... language pack in Ubuntu, then you can run wine with proper LANG environment. For instance:
LANG=en_us.utf-8 wine /path/to/office/executable
replace en_us.utf-8 with your desired language.