Pango-1.1.4 development release

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

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