Comment 19 for bug 35085

For what it's worth, after ICU 3.6 went into debian, openoffice reverted to its internal ICU because of other apparent incompatibilities. I'm not running Ubuntu right now, so I don't know whether Ubuntu has followed. In any case, it's quite likely that this problem is no longer reproducible in ICU with openoffice in Ubuntu. During the fleeting moment during which there was an openoffice in debian that built against ICU 3.6, I tried to open the sample file. I got something that looked neither like the incorrect nor like the correct renderings that were posted here. I don't know Bengali and can't really help further with diagnosis.

In any case, just be aware when testing this that openoffice may not be using the ICU package anymore.