On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Ryan Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward Cherlin wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:24 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> This from the abiword on ubuntu webpage >>> (http://abisource.com/wiki/Install_on_Ubuntu) >>> >>> At this time, the latest version available directly from Ubuntu is an >>> Ubuntu-modified 2.4.6. We are working to get AbiWord 2.6 in Ubuntu >>> 8.04 "Hardy Heron" >>> >>> and adding their repo installs 2.6.4... but if you need the source >>> that should work too
I did get the repo package, and it gives me the same problems. >>> I can build it without problems on my hardy system... just requires a >>> lot of development library dependencies like below, you need to >>> install libglib2.0-dev >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> David Van Assche >>> >> >> I built 2.6.4 from source yesterday on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on an >> AMD Opteron 64-bit. >> >> It does not display non-alphabetic ASCII correctly. The digits and >> punctuation, and also the space character, mostly appear as Unicode >> hex substitution glyphs. Armenian and Arabic display OK. Bengali >> vowels do not attach to base consonants, but are displayed in their >> standalone form. I'm giving up for the day. Well, today Bengali displays correctly, but Armenian is completely wiggy. It sometimes appears correctly, sometimes blank, and sometimes as Devanagari. > Thanks for your testing! Yeah, I saw your bug, that's a weird one! It > works for me on AMD64 with the packages I had the PPA build. I've put > some info requests on the bugzilla report - if anyone wants to help > figure this out the link is > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11708 > > -- > Ryan Pavlik > www.cleardefinition.com > > #282 + (442) - [X] > A programmer started to cuss > Because getting to sleep was a fuss > As he lay there in bed > Looping 'round in his head > was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel