[CS-FSLUG] OOo & Linux in Hebrew

[Don Parris]

An Israeli person posted the following question on one of the
OpenOffice.org lists (I've included a response):

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:18, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
> Last week I went up north here in Israel, to help a school which decided
> to divered from the "MS package" the ministry of education is giving
> schools, and instead going with a Linux based solution provided by
> kanney (http://www.kannery.com ) which will use OpenOffice.
>
> As this is an elemnty school, support for Hebrew diacritics in documents
> is very importent for them. This works well under OOo for Windows, but
> is broken for OOo on Linux (and probably won't be fixed by the time 2.0
> will be out):
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14069
>
Is this actually an OO.o problem, or is it a Linux problem? To be honest, I

have yet to find a way of including niqud in anything I do under linux,
which 
is of course why I asked the above question...

> This is a "model project"- the ministry of education is following it
> closely, and will perhaps deploy OOo in more schools if this goes well.
>
> I was standing in front of the teachers which will be using OpenOffice,
> and was asked: "does it support Hebrew diacritics?"
>
> Talk about frustration. Yes, you will have them when you work with OOo
> on your Windows computer at home. But when you would like to work at
> school, you can't, 'cause it's broken and I don't know when it is going
> to be fixed.
>
> :-(

Anyone got any input on this issue?
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