Re: phantom characters

From: Stephen Viles (sviles_abi@iinet.net.au)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 03:57:13 EST

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    18/02/03 "Reuben D. Budiardja" <reubendb@innovativethought.com> wrote:
    >On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:33 am, Stephen Viles wrote:
    >> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
    >> > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Chris Lee wrote:
    >> > > > Running Abiword 1.0.4 on win98se. I get
    >> > > > phantom square characters ÿÿ
    >> > > > which seem to be related to my use of tabs
    >> > > > to form tables.
    >
    >> The bug is thought to be in the bidirectional text
    >> code.
    >
    >Looks like there is rpm non-bidi version on the download page in sourceforge
    >for abiword for version 1.0.4:
    >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=84373
    >
    >Will this resolve the problem for now?

    Well spotted. I do not currently have a working Linux system to test this, but
    I expect that any non-bidi version will avoid the problem.

    >I think a link for non-bidi version should be included on the download page in
    >abiword site also, as long as things problem is not yet resolved.

    I agree, but that is up to the developers.

    Cheers - Stephen Viles.

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