Hebrew file names in Libreoffice

[Amichai Rotman]

It might be a permissions problem on the "kde-link" file.

I haven't used KDE for years now, so I don't know where to look. In unity,
all launchers are in the ~/.config directory.

Amichai

‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 16 באוג׳ 2018 ב-13:41 מאת ‪Shachar Shemesh‬‏ <‪
shachar at shemesh.biz‬‏>:‬

> On 16/08/2018 12:30, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> At this point, if you run libreoffice from the command line, does it then work?
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Those with the quotes are inferred.
>
> For me, the problem was that some of those lines said "en_IL.UTF-8", which
> is a locale that does not exist.
>
> Shachar
>
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