[ubuntu-in] critical bugs for Indic (hindi) in Ubuntu (revisited)

[ramnarayan.k at gmail.com]

Gora Mohanty wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 15:35 +0530, Aniruddha Shankar wrote:
> [...]
>> 2. After installing the hindi openoffice language pack, open openoffice and try
>> to type any string with more than one hindi character. On my system, openoffice
>> with the hindi language pack is useless because I can only type the first letter
>> of any word, i.e, no Hindi character that is not a) the first character in the
>> file, OR b) preceded by a space appears.
> [...]
> 
> Yes, I just encountered this problem when trying to do a presentation
> with Hindi OpenOffice for a conference. I think it is a problem with the
> Hindi locale, as if you choose the Hindi interface, but an English
> locale, things seem to work. I have not had a chance to investigate this
> further.
> 

Ok - i have the same problem - So Aniruddha have you resolved it.

Funnily the hindi typing works well in a text editor

or even within thunderbird

so what *is* the problem with hindi in Open office

regards
ram