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 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. > > 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
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