--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pango-1.14.8 is now available for download at: > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.14/ > or > ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.14 > > ed0add14bcfe8a6939ea6a5996aa8032 pango-1.14.8.tar.bz2 > 18c64e6cd7b91d04c40ef621a3d8fa4a pango-1.14.8.tar.gz > > This is a follow-up stable release to fix some problems with pango > 1.14.7 and is source and binary compatible with 1.14.x. > > 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 1.14 depends on version 2.10.0 or newer of the GLib > library and version 1.2.2 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 1.14.7 and 1.14.8 > ============================================== > * Improved thread-safety. Pango is still NOT thread-safe, but this fixes > lots of crashes using pangocairo from multiple threads. > * Fix out-of-bounds array access. > * Improved Indic shaper. > * Improved Arabic language engine. > * Choose shaper/font for unassigned Unicode codepoints. > * Build fixes. > * Bugs fixed in this release: > Bug 356666 â?? pango is not thread-safe, nautilus does not honour that > Bug 352795 â?? configure.in: Bug in "checking Whether to write > dependencies into .pc files" > Bug 350132 â?? backspacing doesn't work properly for Arabic > Bug 330407 â?? Multiple dependant vowel signs (indic) displayed as one > Patch from LingNing Zhang > > > 20 November 2006 > Behdad Esfahbod > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > FWIW, this version apparently breaks 'make test' of Gtk2-1.141. I have just tried it in the framework of my tool, and 'make test' of Gtk2-1.141 failed. I reverted to to pango-1.14.7, and 'make test' of Gtk2-1.141 passed, like it was before. Need a bug report ? If yes, against pango-1.14.7 or against Gtk2-1.141 ? All other packages were the same; I am using gtk+-2.8.20. --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $420k for $1,399/mo. Calculate new payment! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
