Flatpak's LibreOffice install missing hyphenation package

[André Luiz Duarte de Queiroz]

Thanks for your interest! I've proceeded as per your suggestions and, after
some tries and errors, I've got my flatpak's LibreOffice installed with
only the locales I effectively use (only 4!), instead of ALL locale files
-- what, obviously, wasn't necessary and was slowing down LibreOffice -- by
means of these commands in Terminal:

andre_luiz at MFD:~$ sudo flatpak uninstall
> org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale//20.08
>
> andre_luiz at MFD:~$ sudo flatpak uninstall
> org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale
>
> andre_luiz at MFD:~$ sudo flatpak install --subpath=/en --subpath=/pt
> --subpath=/ja --subpath=/ar flathub org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale//20.08
>
> andre_luiz at MFD:~$ sudo flatpak install --subpath=/en --subpath=/pt
> --subpath=/ja --subpath=/ar flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale
>

Actually, I had to use " flatpak install *--reinstall*" twice, until I find
the correct code for Japanese locale (*"ja"*, instead of "jp"...) and
realize there's no subgroup of "pt-br" (for Brazilian Portuguese)...

BUT, unfortunately, that wasn't enough to solve the issue I mentioned in
the topic: I'm still getting the error message  "Missing Hyphenation data
 Please install the hyphenation package for locale "ar"...
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Searching in Debian Database, I've not found such a hyphenation package for
Arabic available there... I'm afraid there isn't at all... (
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=hyphen-ar)
I'm still just beginning in the learning of Arabic language, and I don't
know if hyphenation is actually a common practice; maybe there isn't
hyphenation of Arabic texts ( https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/108),
because the written language has already the so called "kashida
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida>" ...

Anyway, even without solving the very issue yet, it was very enlightening
about LibreOffice and flatpak resources! The issue doesn't impeach me of
writing in Arabic (I could just set all paragraphs to "no hyphenation" and
enable 'justify' ...), but it's always intriguing to look for ways to make
the system/application do what *we want it does* !..


Kind regards!

Em ter., 6 de abr. de 2021 às 04:46, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com>
escreveu:

> On 02/04/2021 15:18, André Luiz Duarte de Queiroz wrote:
> > I have LO installed through Flatpak, and it runs fine. But I do have a
> > Multilanguage system, including Arabic language (my usual locale is
> > Portuguese_BR). I've got recently a warning from LO Writer that "Arabic
> > hyphenation package" is missing... I understand the due package would be
> > LO' Arabic locale package, "libreoffice-l10n-ar.deb", which isn't hard
> > to find at common repositories of my Distro (MX Linux) and/or others,
> > although not always the latest version (btw, that's why I chose to
> > install LO through Flatpak instead from MX'S Repos!), but I don't know
> > how to select and install _locales files_ in Flatpak. How can I install
> > this package in particular, and from where?!...
> > Can I download a version compatible (7.1.1.2) package
> > "libreoffice-l10n-ar.deb" from any repository and use it into my Flatpak
> > install?... How?
>
> I assume you're hit by flatpak, by default, only installing a subset of
> locale data (see e.g.,
> <https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issues/126> "How
> to add 'Arabic' User Interface to my flatpak LibreOffice?").  What
> should help is something like
>
> > flatpak install --reinstall org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale//20.08
>
> and
>
> > flatpak install --reinstall org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale
>
>
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