Pango-1.18.0 released

[Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat com>]

Pango-1.18.0 is now available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.18/
or
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.18

5a3cbda73be7277a20d97f2bc89b0737  pango-1.18.0.tar.bz2
97c261dd92b3fddc3d158d7caa90b897  pango-1.18.0.tar.gz

This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared
to Pango-1.16, while maintaining source and binary compatibility.
Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.16 include:

  * Improved OpenType engine, choosing appropriate language systems now.

  * Support for the N'Ko minority language in the Arabic shaper.


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, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in
the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can
be used with different font backends. There are three basic backends,
with multiple options for rendering with each.

 - Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries.
   Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
   to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.

 - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for
   complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or
   directly using the native Win32 API.

 - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo.

The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org)
provides a complete solution with high quality text handling
and graphics rendering.

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango 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/.
Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Pango 1.18 depends on version 2.14.0 or newer of the GLib
library and version 1.2.6 or newer of the cairo library (if the
cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and cairo
can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/
respectively.

Overview of changes between 1.17.5 and 1.18.0
==============================================
- Make pango_script_for_unichar() just call g_unichar_get_script(),
  and document that PangoScript and GUnicodeScript are interchangeable
  enumerations.

- Misc bug fixes

- Bugs fixed in this release:
        Bug 348348 â Add a way to get the script name of a gunichar
        Bug 451682 â Cursor positioning for Sinhala is broken
                Based on patch from Harshula
        Bug 462137 â memory corruption in pango_default_break
        Bug 462420 â Clicking on pixbuf should move the cursor to the position
                nearest to the click point
        Bug 462630 â pango_cairo_context_set_font_options() and some others
                don't have a Since: tag
        Bug 464183 â Minimum tab width enforcement in pango-layout breaks
                TabArray positions
                Patch by David Trowbridge
        Bug 464270 â ellipsize doesn't work consistent
        Bug 465174 â TextView is ignoring multiple consecutive \t's
        Bug 466755 â pango hangul is crashing in gnome-about because it is
                failing to retrieve a font.
        Bug 467056 â Shape attribute handling is not consistent
        Bug 467077 â Remove special-case for shape attribute in
                pango_layout_line_index_to_x()


20 August 2007
Behdad Esfahbod