Thanks Gunnar, it seems like firefox should deal with other encoding but if the encoding change is not confusing other users or the dict (unsure which other programs use it) then I guess it's fine to do as a workaround, uploading
** Changed in: hyphen-ru (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- 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: Fix Committed 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