AbiWord 2.8.4

AbiWord 免費擁有與微軟公司所出產的Office系列之一的WORD軟體一樣的功能，介面和操作方式對常使用的WORD人而言，能非常快速的上手來使用。

• 要使用辦公室應用軟體，再便宜的版本也要花幾千元，而此軟體則不需要花你一毛錢，只需要下載回來安裝即可使用。
• 操作介面要說跟WORD一樣應該也不為過，你只要有用過WORD軟體，在使用上就沒有什麼太大的問題。
• 此軟體的檔案非常小，只佔硬碟空間近6MB的空間，開啟文件的速度比WORD還要快，存成的檔案格式是支援WORD的DOC檔。

# Core

* Editing/Layout (All platforms)
- Fix a bug where deleting a character in non-Western scripts caused a random number of characters to be deleted. (Martin Sevior)

* Editing/Layout (Linux / Mac OSX)
- Bug 6987: "Thai string can't be deleted in proper sequence". This fix applies to all non-Western scripts, for example Russian and Arabic scripts were affected too. This also fixes the cursor movement for complex scripts, as text cluster boundaries are now always honored. (Marc Maurer)
- Bug 11785: Abiword shows strange symbols instead of Arabic characters. This fix applies to all languages that activate our font substitution mechanism. (Marc Maurer)
- Fix the text rendering of complex scripts when text is selected. (Marc Maurer)

#Plugins

*GNOME Office
- Use double click to select a component type and close the dialog. (Jean Bréfort)

#Development

- Maintain and release 2.8.4 (Marc Maurer)
- Link the OpenDocument plugin explicitly against zlib, which fixes the autoconf MinGW build. (Fridrich Strba)