[YBA] libroffice Hebrew input stopped working

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Shlomi,
Many thanks!

  - yba


On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:27:45 +0200
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: [YBA] libroffice Hebrew input stopped working
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:46:21 +0200 (IST)
> Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> I noticed today that Hebrew input stopped working in my LibreOffice
>> installations.
>>
>> When I type using a Hebrew keyboard layout the text cursor blinks but
>> stays in the same place, no Hebrew letter is displayed. Until a few days
>> ago there was no problem using the standard Hebrew keyboard.
>>
>> Debian Wheezy:
>> Linux tavas 3.7-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.7.1-1~experimental.2 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> LibreOffice 3.5.4.2
>> Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)
>>
>
> I was able to reproduce this offending behaviour on an up-to-date VirtualBox VM
> running Debian Wheezy x86-64 with a mostly new UNIX user account. I used the
> Debian system's libreoffice packages. I did notice I was able to type Hebrew
> inside a terminal and inside Iceweasel/Firefox. Enabling Complex Text Layout
> (CTL) in LibreOffice did not help. Finally I should note that the
> system's LibreOffice is working fine in this respect, on my Mageia Linux x86-64
> host.
>
> I have yet to try the LibreOffice packages from
> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?version=4.4&lang=en-US#change
> on the Debian Host (but I will).
>
> So it seems like a bug in the recent Debian Wheezy and I suggest you report it
> to the Debian bug tracker.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
>

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