On 24/07/07, Paul Flint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Amir, > > Are you having trouble operating Ubuntu in Hebrew? I would refer you to: > > sudo apt-get install language-pack-he > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-he/+members > > Note that I do not speak Hebrew, so I would be interested and attentive to > your results.
Thanks for the link. As far as i am concerned, the worst bug in Ubuntu (a big bunch of bugs really) that seriously hurts its adoption in Israel is that OpenOffice very often opens documents in Hebrew quite badly, especially if they have tables or other tricky formatting. It's really stupid, but when people email each other jokes and beautiful pictures in PPT or DOC format and they can't see them correctly, it really bugs them and they dismiss Ubuntu immediately. Translating OpenOffice's menus doesn't fix that (i contributed a few translations myself). There's also another problem - some important Israeli websites are IE-only in a very bad way. I didn't have to resort to IE for any non-Hebrew website since about 2004, but in Israel it's still a catastrophe. I occasionally email the webmasters, trying to remind them that there are some people that don't use Windows, but they rarely bother to reply, let alone fix their sites. OpenOffice and Firefox are not Canonical products, but they are (rightly) part of the core default installation and that's what most users see and use. Can Canonical do something about it?.. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
