Some people are getting crashes with the 0.99e release in FontManager::parseScript; these appear to be caused by different codepage settings in other countries which I didn’t expect to cause these problems.
The easy way to fix this is not to use characters outside the 7-bit ASCII range; in the case of sample.fontdef, remove all the ‘glyph’ lines in each font definition after the ‘~’ character.
For simplicity I’ve checked in a new version into CVS, if you use CVS you can just update, people who have the snapshot can download the patched file and place it in their ogrenew/Samples/Media folder.