bug 12947 (minor)

Hi,

I have been working on abiword for sometime now.
I tried to fix bug 12947 to try to understand the process of fixing a
bug in abiword community.

http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12947

I have uploaded the fix in the link and attached it with this mail also.
I verified the patch for sanity on ubuntu 12.04.

Please let me know if there are issues/suggestions/comments.
thanks!

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Vidhoon Viswanathan
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