Hyphenation for Russian has for a while been provided by the hunspell-ru source package. Does this issue appear in Ubuntu 14.04 or later?
** Package changed: openoffice.org-hyphenation (Ubuntu) => hunspell-ru (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: hunspell-ru (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org-hyphenation in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1107859 Title: Hyphenation doesn't work in Russian text Status in hyphen-ru package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: there is hyph_ru_RU.dic in the /usr/share/hyphen folder. but russian hyphenation doesn't work debian/patches/dont-include-hyphenation-patterns.patch excluded hyphenation files from Ubuntu Firefox build everything works when I extract hyphenation folder from omni.ja file (from original Firefox tarball) and move it content to the /usr/share/hyphen/ check you current hyphen. status http://hyphenator.googlecode.com/svn/dictChecker.html --- ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-09 (81 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True Package: openoffice.org-hyphenation 0.6 PackageArchitecture: all ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4 Tags: raring running-unity Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-06 (53 days ago) UserGroups: adm lpadmin sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hyphen-ru/+bug/1107859/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp