I read that reference before, and even saw the unitless reference. It did not click that was going to cause a problem. Looks like the real problem (other than the export not handling the units), is that a lot of existing part svg files have units specified, and so are broken. At least when using export to svg.
grep "font-size:[0-9]*\.[0-9]*px;" /usr/share/fritzing/parts/svg/core/*/*.svg
Pipe that to wc show 295 instances, though not that many unique files.