Running abiword from the command line and trying to insert a symbol from the "insert" menu gives:-
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(abiword:28293): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Standard Symbols L 32', text=''
Aborted
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11731
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs ... 20965.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493565
My debugging skills are limited at best....some of the bugs above point to it being an abiword problem, and some to it being a "pango" problem.
Someone with more technical skill than me will need to look at this (i.e. practically anyone!), but my first reaction would be just to drop .docx support while the versions of abiword that support it are made more stable. Which is the previous version that was used in 4.1.2? that "just worked"?