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[EliCoten <908465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After some searching around I found this discussion at
http://sfdev.tapuz.co.il/shirshur-236-156463935.htm which explains that
the problem is to do with the fonts. It seems that the default Ubuntu
font (i.e. the one named Ubuntu) does not support Hebrew properly, so
instead it displays squares. (Try typing Hebrew in a word processor and
changing the font to Ubuntu - the characters are displayed as squares).

A workaround is to set the Locale to English (or another language that
the Ubuntu font displays correctly), from within LibreOffice go to Tools
-> Options, View and untick 'Use System Font'. Then set the locale back
to Hebrew and all displays correctly, albeit in a different font.

So either the Ubuntu font needs to be expanded to include the characters
for Hebrew, or there needs to be some sort of fall-back font that
LibreOffice menus can use when the characters for the current language
are not supported by the default font.

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Title:
  Hebrew Menus texts unreadable - characters show up as square blocks

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have my system locale set to Hebrew. Most applications seem to work
  fine, but recently I have noticed that LibreOffice has become unusable
  because the menu texts all show up as square blocks. Other
  applications display Hebrew in their menus fine so it is somethin
  specific to LibreOffice.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: ad9a15703e19217cb3448f881e125f6a
  CheckboxSystem: abc83e3988b72e7c3a9b3aa684cb92fd
  Date: Sat Dec 24 21:32:57 2011
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (60 days ago)

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