Comment 4 for bug 219864

I can confirm the automatic font kerning doesn't work on WinXP, build 21345.

There's a discussion about it on inkscape forum http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3153&start=0

It has been reported there that only capital letters don't kern but I observed it also in this case: "w," using Times New Roman.
It was also mentioned that the bug appears in Suse 11.1 and MacOS but I can only confirm it works on ubuntu Jaunty and doesn't work on winXP.