Fribidi UCS-4 characters are 8 byte on 64 bit machines, leading to crashes on Abiword. A patch was sent to fribidi's bugzilla which, applied on gentoo, solves the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Abiword 2.2.5 2.Click Format/Paragraph 3.HANG!
Created attachment 56044 [details, diff] Patch submitted by Baruch Even to fribidi's bugzilla This patch, applied to 0.10.4 source, solves the problem.
Please apply patch to package in portage using a fribidi-0.10.4-r1 release.
0.10.5 in cvs.