This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!

The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.

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This is a recommended update.

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ChangeLog:
A problem that caused katoob to ignore key presses was fixed.

This is a recommended update.

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ChangeLog:

* Implemented a multipress input method.
* Reorganized the input menu.
* A couple of bug fixes.
* Added a window to show the multipress and emulator mappings.

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ChangeLog: A bug that could crash the application when OK or Apply is clicked in the preferences dialog under UTF-8 locales was fixed. A lot of small features and enhancements were made as well as some code cleanups. GtkSourceView is now used instead of gtksourceviewmm.

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ChangeLog:
* Don't try to convert the encoding if the requested one is utf8. return false if the text is not valid utf8 after we convert it.
* Reset the gui when we close the document from the document label close button.

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* Importing or exporting text with bidi and shaping applied won't reverse it.
* Updated Japanese translation.
* The preferences dialog sections are now translated.
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Only 2 new changed:
* Can now import and export text that has bidi and shaping applied to.
* The plain text exporting now depends on fribidi.
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It has been rewritten in C++ using gtkmm. Better than before. Get it while it's hot!.

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This should be able to open and save files with Arabic filena