Pango-1.1.4 development release
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org, gtk-devel-list gnome org, gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Pango-1.1.4 development release
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:32:00 -0500 (EST)
Pango-1.1.4 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/
This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.2; no further
API additions are anticipated before Pango-1.2, but there is no
guarantee of stability at this point. This package is ABI and API
compatible with the public API in Pango-1.0.x.
The major change since Pango-1.1.4 is a fix for a problem where
applying to text would cause connected scripts like Arabic to
be mis-shaped.
About Pango
===========
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the
GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:
- Core X windowing system fonts
- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
- Native fonts on Microsoft backends
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.0.0 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul,
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major
scripts are supported.
As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
Pango depends on version 2.0.0 of the GLib library; more information
about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
===============================
* Fix the Arabic-words-broken-by-underlines problem by
stripping out non-shape affecting attributes then adding them
back after shaping.
* Hangul shaper fixes [Changwoo Ryu, Jungshik Shin]
* Handle compatability ideographs in basic-x shaper [Federic Zhang]
* Rename function parameters to avoid shadowing system headers
[Soeren Sandmann]
* Fix memory leak in Win32 backend [Tor Lillqvist]
* Fix crasher problem with non-BMP characters [He Qiangqiang]
* Implement pango_ft2_font_map_set_default_substitute() [Matthias Clasen]
* Doc improvements [Matthias Clasen, Michael R. Walton, Jungshik Shin]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Dagfinn I. Mannsåker, Tony Graham,
Dan Mills, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
Owen Taylor
3 December 2002
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