[CS-FSLUG] OOo & Linux in Hebrew

[Nigel Ridley]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:49:38 -0500
Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

My eldest daughter uses Linux and OOo for all her school work but has
yet to need nikud (the dots under Hebrew letters giving vowel
pronunciations) so I can't really help on this except to say that
Shoshannah Forbes knows her stuff and has compiled a book in Hebrew for
users of [Hebrew] OOo.

Blessings,

Nigel

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