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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Yes, a long time.
Back in 2002, Gtk 2.x was just released. Efforts were spent porting, rewriting and redesigning parts of GNOME. The aim was GNOME 2.0 and later on 2.x
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.
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.
* 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!.
katoob-0.3.8+cvs20051212-win32-alpha.
This should be able to open and save files with Arabic filenames.