LibreOffice error initializing month strings

[Panos Georgiadis]

LibreOffice simply doesn't launch. It looks like this bug is related to Ubuntu 13.04 greek locale problem (Invalid UTF-8) -- link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1158750

This is how to re-produce:
drpaneas@raring:~$ libreoffice
ls: error initializing month strings
/usr/bin/libreoffice: 49: cd: can't cd to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 ���../lib/libreoffice/program
/usr/bin/libreoffice: 156: exec: /usr/bin/oosplash: not found

Unfortunately, I can't launch any instance of LibreOffice in Ubuntu 13.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 23 22:22:21 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-21 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130320)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[totecka (toto14)]

It is the same with hungarian dates.

/usr/bin> ls -l libreoffice
ls: error initializing month strings
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 m�rc 25 10:22 libreoffice -> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice

Many scripts use ls -l, and all scripts fail parsing the output.

[Stefan Freyr (stefan-freyr)]

I'm getting this error as well, but LibreOffice actually does start despite the error being displayed in the console.

But when I try to run 'ls -l' in konsole I get this error and no output from the command. Is there any workaround?

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]