[Fwd]: Pango-1.4.0 released

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 > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:47:16 -0500
 > From: Owen Taylor <[email protected]>
 > Subject: Pango-1.4.0 released
 > To: [email protected], [email protected],
 > 	[email protected], [email protected],
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 > Pango-1.4.0 is now available for download at:
 > 
 >  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/
 > 
 > pango-1.4.0.tar.bz2   md5sum: 9b5d9a5dcce5b3899d401f9c2cd6873f
 > pango-1.4.0.tar.gz    md5sum: 14c4938fc0263eabd1a5b0f32cb5f6fa
 > 
 > This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared
 > to Pango-1.2, while maintaining source and binary compatibility.
 > Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.2:
 > 
 >  * Support for characters beyond the basic-multilingual
 >    plane of Unicode and updates of character properties to
 >    match Unicode-4.0.
 > 
 >  * The same modules are now used for the Xft and fontconfig
 >    backends, reducing code duplication, and making it easier
 >    to create new backends independent of Pango that use
 >    fontconfig and FreeType.
 > 
 >  * A better font and shaper selection algorithm is now used
 >    that takes script information into account.
 > 
 >  * Bidirectional base direction can now be automatically 
 >    determined from the text instead of explicitly set by
 >    the application.
 > 
 >  * Improvements to OpenType handling, especially for the GPOS
 >    table. GPOS features are now enabled for Arabic.
 >    
 > 
 > 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 three different font backends:
 > 
 >  - 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-1.4.0 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 or better of the GLib library; more 
 > information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
 > 
 > Special thanks to:
 > 
 >  Noah Levitt [Unicode 4.0 support]
 >  Dov Grobgeld [Automatic paragraph direction determination]
 >  Hans Breuer and Tor Lillqvist [Win32 backend maintenance]
 >  James Henstridge [Automake-1.7 conversion]
 > 
 > Thanks to all Pango-1.4 contributors, including:
 > 
 >  Josh Beam, Jeff Bonggren, Ross Burton, Kailash C. Chowksey, Matthias Clasen, 
 >  Sayamindu Dasgupta, Rodney Dawes, John Ehresman, Shoshannah Forbes, 
 >  Tony Graham, Cedric Gustin, J. Ali Harlow, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
 >  Martin Kretzschmar, Kaushal Kumar, Kjartan Maraas, Mehran Mehr, 
 >  Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sven Neumann, Padraig O'Briain, Christian Persch, 
 >  Laszlo Peter, Martin Pool, Roozbeh Pournader, Nicolas Setton, 
 >  Manish Singh, Manjunath Sripadarao, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, 
 >  Søren Sandmann, Torsten Schoenfeld, Morten Welinder, Masatake YAMATO
 > 
 > Owen Taylor
 > 16 March 2004
 > 
 > 
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