I agree it's more of a firefox issue than a hyphen-ru thing, whatever we don to hyphen-ru would be a workaround. Still, I have a feeling firefox will take forever to be fixed…
I wouldn't like adding such a patch to lo-dicts, if such a thing would be needed there I'd try to do it a build time instead, and I'd do so very sadly. Then, taking over a package in debian a kind of social problem :(, it needs to be done slowly and with great care, otherwise bad things may happen. If I were you in the meantime I'd 1) upload that hyphen-ru of yours to close this bug 2) open a bug against upstream lo-dicts to ask to convert the file to UTF-8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1107859 Title: Hyphenation of Russian text doesn't work in Firefox due to unrecognized encoding Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Status in hyphen-ru package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: To the sponsor: Please upload the source in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/hyphen-ru [Original description] there is hyph_ru_RU.dic in the /usr/share/hyphen folder. but russian hyphenation doesn't work debian/patches/dont-include-hyphenation-patterns.patch excluded hyphenation files from Ubuntu Firefox build everything works when I extract hyphenation folder from omni.ja file (from original Firefox tarball) and move it content to the /usr/share/hyphen/ check you current hyphen. status http://hyphenator.googlecode.com/svn/dictChecker.html --- ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-09 (81 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True Package: openoffice.org-hyphenation 0.6 PackageArchitecture: all ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4 Tags: raring running-unity Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-06 (53 days ago) UserGroups: adm lpadmin sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1107859/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp