(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #29) > (In reply to Amnon Yekutieli from comment #28) > > I am trying a radically different solution to my problem: I just installed > > KUBUNTU 15.10. It is running the same KDE plasma desktop. > > > > The problems that I complained about do not show up here -- both OKULAR and > > LIBREOFFICE can open files with Hebrew names. > > Well, it should work in openSUSE too if the locale was set correctly. > And you'd probably have the same problem in KUbuntu if you set your locale > to 'C'. > > The question is *why* the locale is set to 'C'. > > Can you please confirm if the output of locale is the same when logged in to > IceWM? I can't do that, because I have unistalled openSUSE from my notebook computer, and have KUBUNTU running on it! If this OS (KUBUNTU) works well for me, I will remain with it. So far it has been much better-behaved from SUSE.