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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.5 with LibreOffice. I was able to write documents in Hebrew without problems and at some point Hebrew stopped working.

I have no idea what caused this problem, but now I can't type Hebrew at all in LibreOffice - cursor doesn't move and characters don't appear. If I open Hebrew document, all Hebrew characters are invisible. In other applications Hebrew works fine.

My LibreOffice version is 3.5.7.2. Any ideas?

Dima L.
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Update to LO 5.0.0.5, aka " LO fresh" using the following ppa:libreoffice/ppa instead of downloading the deb packages.

The above repo will allow a permanent updating as new versions come out (hence the name "LO fresh"), whereas installing from the .deb files would not, because they are purposefully built on an "older baseline for maximum compatibility".

In the terminal, do per usual:

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:libreoffice/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Your configuration files should be preserved but you will see that option settings under Menu | Tools > Options are expanded.

Enjoy !

Cbhihe
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