FBReader writes hyphen after each word

[Şerban S.]

Toshiba Portege R700
Lite 5.0

I use FBReader a great deal and I have the version 0.12.10dfsg2-4bu installed from the repository.
When reading an epub book the application inserts a hyphen after every word before the space.
No amount of fiddling with the settings changes this.
I have a similar setup on a Satellite Pro running MX and FBReader (version 0.12.10dfsg2-3) renders the text perfectly.
My old 32bit D420 runs Lite 3.8 and FBReader works as it should.
I've just learned that the developer no longer supports Linux and that version 12 is old software, I've also read that Ubuntu 20 has dropped qt4 which may explain something.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Hello!

From what I know, all distros are about to drop Qt4 support.
Even in the programming community the support for Qt4 is rendered only for legacy and using Qt4 is discouraged.
Maybe it would be better to find a new App for this purpose.
Do a search with "Linux ebook readers" or "Best Linux ebook readers".

https://itsfoss.com/best-ebook-readers-linux/

I tested Calibre, but for my needs, it is too complex. Still... If you used FBReader, I guess the "next-in-keen" would be Calibre.

Good luck!