[YBA] libroffice Hebrew input stopped working

[Shlomi Fish]

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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