Pango-1.3.1 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/ pango-1.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: c5f1689623ae04a6276327e54927b656 pango-1.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: c3a23f03b4d68b12f67720fbf6ca2bfc This is a development release loading up to Pango-1.3.1; changes in since Pango-1.3.0 are relatively minor; the most interesting is some additional work by Noah Levitt on finishing Unicode-4.0 support. Notes: * This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of Pango-1.2. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall Pango-1.2.5. * Pango-1.4 will be source and binary compatible with the Pango-1.2.x series; however, the new API additions in Pango-1.3.x are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities between this release and the final 2.2 release. * Remaining API issues for Pango-1.4 can be found with following bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=pango&target_milestone=1.4+API+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. 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 usage so far as been in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+ 2. 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 Xft2 library - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library - Native fonts on Microsoft platforms Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 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 2.2.0 or newer of the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. Overview of changes in Pango 1.3.1 ================================== * Support non-Unicode font encodings when supported by fontconfig [Sven Neumann] * Draw 6-digit hex boxes for > U+FFFF [Noah Levitt] * Update to latest fribidi [Noah] * Honor U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR [Noah] * Fix a problem with iteration by chars [Mariano SuÃrez-Alvarez] * Misc bug and build fixes [Jeff Bonggren, Martin Kretzschmar, Noah, Sven Neumann, Padraig O'Briain, Manish Singh, Morten Welinder] * Fix header file includes to work with recent FreeType. Owen Taylor 8 December 2003 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
