It appears that the following workaround works for this and other fontforge issues in Ubuntu 11.10: uninstall fontforge. Clone the latest fontforge source:
$ git clone git://fontforge.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/fontforge/fontforge
configure, make and make install this version.
It appears that the following workaround works for this and other fontforge issues in Ubuntu 11.10: uninstall fontforge. Clone the latest fontforge source:
$ git clone git://fontforge .git.sourceforg e.net/gitroot/ fontforge/ fontforge
configure, make and make install this version.