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  PANGO_GET_UNKNOWN_GLYPH publicly; just in the engine/backend interface.
* Fix a few crashers, especially when a font cannot be read. [#314239]
* Change some g_critical's to g_warning, where it's not application's
  fault. [#331723]
* Bugs fixed in this release:
  330795,331038,329148,331994,331995,331996,314239,331723

Overview of changes between 1.11.4 and 1.11.5
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* Cleanup work on the win32 backend.  Families are not listed all
  in lower case anymore.
* New public function: pango_win32_font_description_from_logfont.
* pango-view accepts --wrap now, and lists backends in --help output.
* A couple minor bug fixes.

Overview of changes between 1.11.3 and 1.11.4
=============================================
* Major change in the low-level interface of Pango.  The special value
  PANGO_GLYPH_EMPTY is now defined to mean a "draw nothing" glyph.  This
  was what glyph 0 was used for previously.  As a result, bumped up the
  Pango module version, meaning that modules compiled against earlier
  versions are probably not compatible with this release. [#73147]
* New framework in examples for building a binary called pango-view,
  that can be used to render a text file using any of the available
  backends.  This is installed into bindir now.
* Enhancements to the FT2 backend, to draw boxes on missing glyphs.
* Better hexbox drawing for cairo backend:  Hinting hexbox, and
  drawing a single-row hexbox for very small font sizes.
* Improved documentation.

Overview of changes between 1.11.2 and 1.11.3
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* Do not crash if the shapers fail.
* Use g_slice for various struct allocations.
* 100% symbol coverage in docs.
* Misc bug fixes and documentation improvements.
* Janitory works, like removing unneeded files.

Overview of changes between 1.11.1 and 1.11.2
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* Draw hex box on missing glyphs for cairo-fc backend.
* New --with-dynamic-modules option added to configure.
* Use g_slice for various small memory allocations [Matthias Clasen]
* Misc bug fixes, optimizations, and documentation improvements.

Overview of changes between 1.11.0 and 1.11.1
=============================================
* ATSUI support for the cairo backend. [Anders Carlsson]
* Fixed a couple of regressions with font size and scaling.
* Draw a dashed empty box on missing glyphs for cairo-fc backend.
* Support OpenType features for basic (Latin/Greek/...) module.
* Support swash feature in Arabic module.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Misc documentation improvements.

Optimizations:

* Cache GObject private data in PangoFcFont.priv [Federico Mena Quintero]
* Add a constant-sized light-weight cache for glyph extents.
* Use g_slice_* instead of GMemChunk in mini-fribidi.


Overview of changes between 1.10.1 and 1.11.0
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* Line-breaking algorithm updated to Unicode 4.1.
* Code borrowed from GNU FriBidi resynched to version 1.0.7.
* New improved Tibetan shaper module. [Pema Geyleg]
* Bug fix in Khmer shaper module. [Jens Herden]
* Respect fontconfig reassignment of font pixelsize. [Funda Wang]
* Make OpenType GPOS handling more robust/correct. [Greg Aumann]
* Various documentation fixes and improvements.
* Various gcc warning fixes.
* Misc bug fixes.

Optimizations:

* Add a lazy fixed-size per-font cache to map characters to glyphs,
  in the cairo backend. [Federico Mena Quintero]
* Optimize character to script mapping by adding a linear table for
  characters < U+2000, and also caching the last mid point in
  bsearch. [Federico, Matthias Clasen]
* Enabled mini-fribidi's trashstack instead of direct mallocs.
* Short circuit the bidi algorithm for provably unidirectional text.
* Make mini-fribidi process UTF-8 directly.
* Several strlen and g_utf8_strlen calls removed. [Owen Taylor, Billy Biggs]
* Use call tables in the OpenType layout code.
* Use quarks for accessing GObject data. [Federico]
* Open Pango modules with lazy-bind flags. [John Rice]
* Use new negative offsets in g_utf8_pointer_to_offset to avoid
  scanning from the beginning of line on cursor movement.
* Avoid redundant PANGO_IS_FC_FONT checks.

Overview of changes between 1.10.0 and 1.10.1
=============================================
* Add various forms of caching to the Win32 backend, greatly
  improving performance [Tor Lillqvist]
* Fix problem with colors leaking from a Pango item to 
  subsequently drawn strings. [Choe Hwanjin]
* Fix bug where error underlines would be drawn 1024 times
  too big in the Cairo backend. [Luis Villa]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Jean Brefort, Matthias Clasen, 
  Behdad Esfahbod, Kazuki Iwamoto]

Overview of changes between 1.9.1 and 1.10.0
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* Update script tables, bidi tables, and Arabic joining tables for Unicode 4.1 
  [Roozbeh Pournader, Behdad Esfahbod]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Hans Breuer, Behdad, 
  J. Ali Harlow, Tor Lillqvist, Keith Packard, Vittorio Palmisano, Manish Singh]

Overview of changes between 1.9.0 and 1.9.1
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* Support setting of font options and DPI on PangoContext for
  the Cairo backend.
* Adapt to recent Cairo API changes
* Win32 build improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
* Misc bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
	
Overview of changes between 1.8.x and 1.9.x
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* Add Cairo support; PangoCairoFontmap is an interface with
  implementations for Fontconfig fonts and Win32 fonts
* Extend PangoFcFontmap to allow more customization by subclasses
* Handle NULL language better for pango_context_get_metrics()
* misc optimization [Paolo Borelli, Behdad Esfahbod]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Hans Breuer, Damien Carbery, 
  Keith Packard, Manish Singh]
* Doc fixes [Tim Janik]

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Overview of changes between 1.8.1 and 1.8.2
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* Add Khmer support [Jens Herden, Javier Sola]
* Fix bugs and crashes in the operation of PangoLayoutIter [Amit Aronovitch]
* Increase sharing of data between different copies of Pango
  [Tommi Komulainen, Ross Burton]
* Remove dependence of opentype code on FreeType internals [David Turner,
  Behdad Esfahbod]
* Cache metrics for the Win32 backend [Tor Lillqvist]
* Improve handling of RTL text when passing it to Uniscribe [Tor]
* Support for TrueType fonts on Win32 with characters outside the BMP [Tor]
* Handle alpha in XftColors again. [Mikael Magnusson]
* Better handling of MacThai encoded fonts [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Handle zero width chars properly in Hangul backend 
  [Young-Ho Cha, Changwoo Ryu]
* Fix Oriya character classification [Gora Mohanty, Gautam Sengupta]
* PangoAttrIterator bug fixes [Morten Welinder]
* Clean up copyright/licensing information [William N. Ray]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Brandon Bergren,
  Chris Blizzard, Paolo Borelli, Behdad, Harshula, Alex Jones, Aivars Kalvans, 
  Stepan Kasal,  Karel Kulhavy, Ryan Lortie, Ben Maurer, Sukhjinder Sidhu, 
  Manish Singh, Emil Soleyman-Zomalan, Morten]

Overview of changes between 1.8.0 and 1.8.1
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* Fix several problems with conjuct formation in Sinhala [Harshula]
* Fix problems that were causing fonts to be missized and
  not print in GtkHTML [Ross Burton]
* Fix compilation with old fontconfig [Vincent Noel] and
  old FreeType [Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr]
* Work around problem with glyphs in monospace fonts being truncated
  by Xft [Billy Biggs]
* Misc bug fixes [Damon Chaplin, Matthias Clasen, Kees Cook, Nick Lamb, 
  Adam Sampson,Manish Singh, Morten Welinder]
* Misc build fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Matthias Clasen, Tor Lillquist]
* Doc improvements [Torsten Schoenfeld, Billy Biggs, Morten Welinder]

Overview of changes between 1.7.0 and 1.8.0
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* Add Sinhala support to the Indic module [Anuradha Ratnaweera]
* Add Tibetan module [G Karunakar, Pema Geyleg]
* Support pixel sizes for fonts [Chris Lahey]
* Add pango_layout_get_font_description() [Morten Welinder]
* Add PANGO_WEIGHT_SEMIBOLD [Lars Clausen]
* Report underline metrics on Win32 [Tor]
* Handle GLib-2.6.0 win32 filename encoding changes [Tor Lillqvist,
  Robert Ögren]
* Fix crash when drawing long strings
* Misc fixes [Matthias Clasen, Dan Winship]

Overview of changes between 1.6.x and 1.7.0
===========================================

* Add PangoRenderer, a subclassable driver object holding the 
  logic for rendering PangoLayout.
* Support transformed rendering for the Xft backend
* Add Lao support in Thai Module [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Support Thai OpenType fonts [Theppitak]
* Add Syriac module [Emil Soleyman-Zomalan]
* Add underline-color and strikethrough-color attributes
  [Morten Welinder]
* Add pango_win32_render_transformed() [Hans Breuer]
* Misc fixes [Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Manish Singh,
   Morten Welinder]
* Documentation improvements

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Overview of changes since 1.6.0
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* Fix several problem when computing font and selecting fonts
  metrics for CJK [Felipe Heidrich, Federic Zhang]
* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Kazuki Iwamoto, Ivan Wong]
* Misc bug fixes [Vincent Berger, Paolo Borelli, Behdad Esfahbod, 
  Leon Ho, Arun M, Kjartan Maraas, Vincent Noel, Christian Persch, 
  Enrico Scholz, Sukhjinder Sidhu, Morten Welinder]

Overview of changes between 1.5.2 and 1.6.0
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* Add OpenType support for Hebrew [Dov Grobgeld]
* Win32 bug and build fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, John Ehresman]
* Misc bug fixes [Behdad Esfahbod, Jatin Nansi]

Overview of changes between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2
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* Support 'init' feature for Bengali [Sayamindu Dasgupta]
* Allow 32-bit property fields in OpenType code
* Optimize repeated property lookups in OpenType code
* Misc bug fixes [Behdad, Keith Sharp, Morten Welinder]

Overview of changes between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1
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* Add ellipsization support to PangoLayout
* Add pango_context_get_font_map().
* Fix metrics for the Xft backend when a transform is in effect
* Separate out backend-independent parts of pangoft2topgm for
  future rendering testbeds.
* Code cleanups (use G_DEFINE_TYPE, make PangoMatrix parameters const)
* Add a GType for PangoMatrix [Torsten Schoenfeld]
* Misc bug fixes [Morten Welinder]

Overview of changes between 1.4.x and 1.5.0
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* Allow applications to provide custom font decoders [Chris Blizzard]
* Add support for setting a transformation matrix on a PangoContext
* Add support for rotated rendering to the FT2 backend
* Add metrics for underline and strikethrough position and thickness.
* Add letter-spacing attribute and implement in PangoLayout
* OpenType support in Thai Module [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Add Add PANGO_TYPE_LAYOUT_ITER [Johan Dahlin]

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Overview of changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1
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* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, John Ehresman]
* Thai rendering improvements including OpenType support
  [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
* Fix common crash in Hangul shaper [Changwoo Ryu]
* Fix various problems with language tag selection [Frederic Zhang]
* Documentation improvements [Felipe Heidrich, Doug Quale]
* Fix crash in line break code [Jeroen Zwartepoorte, Billy Biggs]
* Build fixes [J. Ali Harlow, Noah Misch]
* OpenType engine fixes [Kailash C. Chowksey, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Aamir Wali,
  Masatake YAMATO, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh]
* Indic module bug fixes [Chris Blizzard, Rajkumar S, Taneem Ahmed,
  Jungshik Shin]
* Misc bug fixes [Stanislav Brabec, Anders Carlsson, Behdad Esfahbod, 
  Jody Goldberg, Theppitak, Sven Neumann, Manish Singh, Morten Welinder]

Overview of changes between 1.3.6 and 1.4.0
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* Use FC_WIDTH when available so that multiple width fonts are
  selected properly [Manish Singh]

Overview of changes between 1.3.5 and 1.3.6
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* Improve handling of some Kannada vowels [Kailash C. Chowksey]
* Fix problem with excess symbol exports on Linux [James Henstridge]
* Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer, John Ehresman, Tor Lillqvist, Cedric Gustin, 
  J. Ali Harlow]

Overview of changes between 1.3.3 and 1.3.5
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* Add support for automatically determining the base direction for
  PangoLayout from the contained text [Dov Grobgeld]
* Major rework of internal opentype interfaces to fix
  problems with GPOS. Turn on GPOS handling for Arabic.
* Add a PangoAttribute to turn off font fallback [Noah Levitt]
* Add wavy error-indication underlines [Nicolas Setton]
* Improve handling of BENGALI LETTER A/E [Sayamindu Dasgupta]
* Win32 bug fixes and improvements [J. Ali Harlow, Hans Breuer]
* Misc bug fixes [Noah, Roozbeh Pournader]

Overview of changes between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3
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* Add pango_font_face_list_sizes() [Noah Levitt]
* Add pango_font_family_is_monospace [Noah]
* Do OpenType processing for CFF fonts [Manjunath Sripadarao]
* Fix wrong sign for GPOS vertical positioning
* Fix up -uninstalled .pc files [Laszlo Peter]
* Misc bug and build fixes fixes [Rodney Dawes, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
  Noah, Kjartan Maraas, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Christian Persch, 
  Torsten Schoenfeld, Manish Singh, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Morten Welinder,
  Masatake YAMATO]

Overview of changes between 1.3.1 and 1.3.2
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* Correct a mixup between ZWJ and ZWNJ in the Arabic
  engine  [Roozbeh Pournader]
* Build and bug fixes for Win32  [Hans Breuer]
* Fix a problem with RTL scripts on Win32  [Tor Lillqvist, Shoshannah Forbes]
* Documentation improvements  [Ross Burton, Matthias Clasen]

Overview of changes between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1
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* 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 Suárez-Alvarez]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Jeff Bonggren, Martin Kretzschmar, 
  Noah, Sven Neumann, Padraig O'Briain, Manish Singh,