Hebrew file names in Libreoffice

[Shlomo Solomon]

After more research, I'm pretty sure this is a KDE-Libreoffice
interaction problem, but don't know how to solve it. Here's a summary of
what I know and tried - #6 is really interesting/strange.

1 - click on a Hebrew file name - libreoffice says file does not exist.
2 - click on Libreoffice icon + try to open a Hebrew name - same result
3 - run libreoffice from command line - works OK
4 - sudo libreoffice also works OK but that's a BAD solution
5 - created a KDE "link to application" and chose "run in terminal" -
libreoffice says file does not exist
6 - created a KDE "link to application" and chose "run in terminal"  +
"run as a different user" - KDE asks for a password and libreoffice
works OK.    NOTE: As the "other" user I chose my regular username!!!
7 - I read that the libreoffice-kde can cause problems so I
un-installed it, but that didn't help (and it made a mess of the file
open/save dialogue). 



As I already wrote, locale is set to en_US.UTF-8

solomon at shlomo1:~$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: us
       X11 Model: pc105

solomon at shlomo1:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
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

BTW - is there any significance to the fact that some of the above
lines say  "en_US.UTF-8"  and others en_US.UTF-8?

Any help would be appreciated





On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:44:33 +0300
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> I did try adding Hebrew locale but that did not help and also had an
> un-expected side effect - Some programs (for example smbc) ran with
> a Hebrew interface.
> 
> BTW - on my Mageia boxes, with en_US.UTF-8 Libreoffice works
> perfectly. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:22:12 +0300
> Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Try adding Hebrew locale.
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:01 PM, Shlomo Solomon
> > <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On my new Kubuntu 18.04 box, Libreoffice will not open files with
> > > Hebrew names - says file does not exist.
> > >
> > > On a Windows 10 machine Libreoffice has no problem with the same
> > > files.
> > >
> > > And a really strange thing - if I run Libreoffice from the command
> > > line instead of clicking on an icon or the KDE menu, it works
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > I thought this was a utf-8 problem, but my locale seems to be
> > > correct.
> > >
> > > $ locale
> > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> > > 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
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shlomo Solomon
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