Hi Folks, On my RedHat 8 laptop with current CVS I find that that UTF8 encoding is totally borken.
I put in a debug print in gr_UnixGRaphics:drawChars to find out what is happening. When I type 'fred' into an empty abiword I get... 1711276032 1912602624 1694498816 1677721600 from this code... void GR_UnixGraphics::drawChars(const UT_UCSChar* pChars, int iCharOffset, int iLength, UT_sint32 xoff, UT_sint32 yoff, int * pCharWidths) { _UUD(xoff); _UUD(yoff); // // FIXME REMOVE THIS CODE!!! // UT_sint32 i =0; for(i=0; i< iLength;i++) { printf("%c",(char) (pChars[i +iCharOffset] & 127)); } printf("\n"); for(i=0; i< iLength;i++) { printf("%d ",pChars[i +iCharOffset]); } printf("\n"); It looks like the little/endian big endian stuff is wrong. Maybe this happened from one of our PPC developers not noticing something. Just a guess. Anyway, could people into encoding please look at this? Thanks! Martin