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OpenOffice under Ubuntu Koala Menu- and dialog texts disappeared

#1 User is offline   helene_t 

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Posted 2010-January-11, 04:41

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I installed Koala a few days ago, including newest OpenOffice. Worked fine.

Suddenly yesterday all system-generated texts (menus, dialogs) got replaced by hyphen-like characters. Otherwise the software seems to work normally. Text I enter myself is displayed normally, as are icons and such.

The problem affects all OpenOffice applications but no other software (Kile, Evidence, GIMP etc work normally).

I tried to purge all software packages (including config files) that have "openoffice" in their description, and reinstall. Doesn't help.

Looks as if OpenOffice can't find the font it wants to use to generate texts. Maybe it has become configured to some non-latin alphabet for which I don't have the font or something like that?

Any ideas?
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Posted 2010-January-11, 04:58

This looks like a java issue, seems that java is getting the wrong system language (so it could also be a problem of the system settings).
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Posted 2010-January-11, 05:16

Thanks HotShot, should I try to reinstall Java?

I will check that I have set English-GB as my preferred language everywhere.
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Posted 2010-January-11, 05:40

Check the system lang variable in linux.

reinstalling java might help, but I'm not sure that this would help because I'm not sure that it is in one of the *.properties file of the java configuration.
maybe it's in the java call.
java -Duser.language=en ....more switches
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Posted 2010-January-11, 05:45

Ah right OpenOffice is a java thing, I didn't even realize.

Will try with some other java apps to see if I can locate the problem.

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Posted 2010-January-11, 07:19

Try removing the pango-graphite package if installed at all.

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Posted 2010-January-11, 16:29

The default application font was set to "sans" which wasn't installed. Solved now.
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