tags 197013 + moreinfo thanks Please will you look at this bugreport:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187292 It is probably your problem, but I can't tell because you did not include locale information. If this is not the problem, please supply; 1. The output of the 'locale' command 2. Any messages that are displayed when starting 'openoffice' from a terminal. Chris