diff -Naupr fillets-ng-0.8.0.orig/src/effect/Font.cpp fillets-ng-0.8.0.fribidi/src/effect/Font.cpp
--- fillets-ng-0.8.0.orig/src/effect/Font.cpp	2006-01-05 22:55:24.000000000 +0100
+++ fillets-ng-0.8.0.fribidi/src/effect/Font.cpp	2008-02-24 13:44:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Font::biditize(const std::string &text)
     FriBidiChar *logicalString = new FriBidiChar[text.length() + 1];
     FriBidiChar *visualString = new FriBidiChar[text.length() + 1];
 
-    int ucsLength = fribidi_utf8_to_unicode(const_cast<char*>(text.c_str()),
+    int ucsLength = fribidi_charset_to_unicode(FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_UTF8,
+            const_cast<char*>(text.c_str()),
             text.length(), logicalString);
     fribidi_boolean ok = fribidi_log2vis(logicalString, ucsLength, &base,
             visualString, NULL, NULL, NULL);
@@ -37,7 +38,8 @@ Font::biditize(const std::string &text)
     }
 
     char *buffer = new char[text.length() + 1];
-    int length = fribidi_unicode_to_utf8(visualString, ucsLength, buffer);
+    int length = fribidi_unicode_to_charset(FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_UTF8,
+            visualString, ucsLength, buffer);
     std::string result = std::string(buffer, length);
     delete[] buffer;
     delete[] visualString;