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Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pang

* Fixed broken build with included lang modules.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 361938 – Can't include *-lang modules (./configure
		     --with-included-modules fails)

Overview of changes between 1.14.5 and 1.14.6
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* Backport language-engine handling fixes from HEAD.
* Add simple Arabic and Indic language engines.
* Indic shaper fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 353877 – Sinhala is_cursor_position and
		     backspace_deletes_character issues
		     Patch from Akira TAGOH
	Bug 358224 – Telugu Character U+0C31 does not render its below-base
		     form.
		     Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
	Bug 358174 – Reph and Vattu forms of Assamese character RA(U+09F0)
		     are not rendered.
		     Patch from Rahul Bhalerao

Overview of changes between 1.14.4 and 1.14.5
==============================================
* Indic shaper fixes.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 356685 – [or_IN] Rendering of consonant+0x0B4D+0x0B2F is wrong
	             Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
	Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam consonant RA (U+0D30)
	             Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
	Bug 349813 – typo in docs for pango_layout_move_cursor_visually
	Bug 357686 – pangocairo-font.c: illegal g_object_unref in
	             pango_cairo_font_get_hex_box_info

Overview of changes between 1.14.3 and 1.14.4
==============================================
* Indic shaper fixes.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 351223 – the conjuction of Con + 0x0d4d +0x0d31 of Malayalam is
	             wrong
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 355750 – The glyphs of the conjuctions about Cons+0x0d4d+0x0d32 of
	             Malayalm are wrong.
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 349876 – U+0x0904 of Devanagari need be "independent vowel", but
	             it is "reserved" in Pango
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 355550 – Miscalculation of logical attributes in
	             pango_get_log_attrs()
	             Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
	Bug 355697 – The IndicOTClassTable of Oriya has a error.
	Bug 355782 – Misaligned extents in pango
	Bug 355605 – hexbox with 0000 in it
	Bug 355435 – Invalid calls to pango_map_get_engine()
	             Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
	Bug 347146 – underline/overstrike spaces
	Bug 352535 – Ink extents of empty glyph

Overview of changes between 1.14.2 and 1.14.3
==============================================
* Win32 build improvement. [Tor Lillqist]
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 353525 – libpangoft2-1.0.so.0: undefined reference to
	             `pango_font_description_get_gravity'
	Bug 349813 – typo in docs for pango_layout_move_cursor_visually

Overview of changes between 1.14.1 and 1.14.2
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* Find shaper/font for Private Use and space characters.
  Part of Bug 145275 – Font selection for space characters

Overview of changes between 1.14.0 and 1.14.1
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* Increased fontset cache size from 16 to 64.  This should make
  firefox+pango A LOT faster.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 352114 – pango-1.14: generated docs still contain old example code
	Part of Bug 348825 – pango should optimize away calls to FcFontSort as
	                     much as possible
	Bug 351585 – API documentation issues with 2.15 release


Overview of changes between 1.13.5 and 1.14.0
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* Make pango-view accept non-ASCII --text.
* Require cairo-1.2.2 for the important bug fixes it has.

Overview of changes between 1.13.4 and 1.13.5
==============================================
* Indic shaper improvements.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 121672 – Ra (vattu) not rendered properly in Malayalam
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 335811 – Some conjugates of Malayalam are wrong.
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang

Overview of changes between 1.13.3 and 1.13.4
==============================================
* Update to Unicode Character Database 5.0.0.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 336282 – Update to Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
	Bug 347073 – Allow empty GPOS table
	Bug 347021 – atsui crash when a matching font cannot be found.
	             Patch from Brian Tarricone.

Overview of changes between 1.13.2 and 1.13.3
==============================================
* Improved build system.  Using gnome-autogen.sh now.
  (gnome-common needed for bootstrapping)
* Improved documentation.  Docs now include list of new API for
  each stable version of Pango.
* New public API:
	- pango_glyph_string_get_width
* Little performance improvement.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 330603 – pango_scan_int invokes undefined behaviour
	Bug 315599 – PangoAttribute remains in wrong context.
	Bug 163677 – pango_attr_list_splice: inconsistent docs
		     Patch from Morten Welinder
	Bug 345070 – [ml_IN] not render for combination with ZWJ
		     Patch from LingNing Zhang
	Bug 345274 – list of new symbols for each version is missing in docs
		     Patch from Priit Laes
	Bug 346297 – autogen doesn't work with automake-1.6
		     Patch from Priit Laes
	Bug 135683 – Cache glyphstring extents
	Bug 344766 – Memory leak in get_ruleset() in modules/basic/basic-fc.c
	Bug 345600 – cvs build error in pango/opentype/Makefile
	Bug 345511 – -no-undefined problem with new libtool

Overview of changes between 1.13.1 and 1.13.2
==============================================
* Improved hexbox drawing, and font metrics calculations.
* Synthesize italic variants on win32 [Hans Breuer]
* New public API:
	- pango_cairo_show_error_underline
	- pango_cairo_error_underline_path
	- pango_font_describe_with_absolute_size
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 326960 – hex box drawing for win32 and atsui backends of cairo
	Bug 343717 – License information in unclear.
	Bug 343355 – Add pango_cairo_show_error_underline &
	             pango_cairo_error_underline_path
	Bug 343966 – pango Cygwin build fixes
	             Patch from Cygwin Ports maintainer.
	Bug 343796 – Italic Chinese character can't be show correctly in
	             Win32.
	Bug 314114 – max_x_advance not appropriate for
	             approximate_(char|digit)_width
	Bug 341138 – Using TTC font, Gtk2 programs begin to eating big memory
	             and have many cpu usage.
	             Patch from Yong Li.
	Bug 336153 – Mark to mark positioning (Lookup Type 6) isn't correct
	             when using MarkAttchmentType
	             Patch from Tin Myo Htet.
	Bug 333984 – pango_language_from_string improvements
	Bug 125378 – Better underline thickness handling
	Bug 339730 – Pango needlessly falls back away from a Type 1 font into
	             a TTF font
	Bug 342562 – Support absolute sizes in
	             pango_font_description_to/from_string
	Bug 341922 – pango should handle more characters as zero width
	             Patch from Roozbeh Pournader
	Bug 342525 – With PangoFc and PangoWin32, approximate digit width is
	             not what it says
	Bug 342079 – pangoatsui-private.h missing from release

Overview of changes between 1.13.0 and 1.13.1
==============================================
* Increased robustness against broken pango.modules
* Improved build infrastructure:
  - Remove CAIRO_CFLAGS from pangocairo.pc.in, as it Require's cairo already.
  - Use -no-undefined on Unix too.
* Improved documentation.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 307196 – Unhinted fonts are measured incorrectly and drawing
	             problems occur as a result
	Bug 329547 – pango_layout_get_pixel_extents and
	             pango_layout_get_pixel_size cause off-by-one metrics
	Bug 339747 – pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_digit_width docs
	Bug 339749 – pango_language_from_string issues
	             Patch from Morten Welinder.
	Bug 333771 – Use gmodule-no-export-2.0 instead of gmodule-2.0 in
	             pango-uninstalled.pc.in
	Bug 337594 – pango_glyph_string_extents_range possible bug
	Bug 329664 – Move gunichar_to_glyph cache from PangoCairoFcFont to
	             PangoFcFont
	             Patch from LingNing Zhang.
	Bug 322374 – Examples does not build on MacOS X
	Bug 340229 – pango_font_description_from_string does not do bound
	             checking
	Bug 329483 – hinting hexbox in cairo backend doesn't handle absolute
	             font size
	Bug 340040 – pangocairo hex box hinting falls apart with PS/PDF
	             backends
	Bug 71033 – make size 0 fonts work

Overview of changes between 1.12.0 and 1.13.0
==============================================
* Fix incorrect rendering when in x86 64-bit precision mode
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200
* Fix non-OpenType fonts losing kerning in 1.12.0 [#336026, Denis Jacquerye]
* Fix blurred underlines on Win32 [#332656, Tor Lillqvist]
* Build fix when having both Win32 and FreeType cairo backends available
  [#337502, Alexander Larsson]
* Moved the OpenType Layout code into a new project called HarfBuzz:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
* Improved documentation.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Fixed many compiler warnings.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
  332656,335840,334802,337029,337821,338343

Overview of changes between 1.11.99 and 1.12.0
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* Compilations fixes for MSVC. [#333115, Tor Lillqvist]
* More NULL-check against unusable fonts, helps with Win32 fonts without
  a Unicode cmap. [Tor]
* Use g_print instead of printf for debugging output in Win32 backend.
  [#332855, Tor]

Overview of changes between 1.11.6 and 1.11.99
==============================================
* Fix problem recently introduced that made Win32 backend render boxes
  only. [#332538, Hans Breuer]
* Insert '?' chars instead of invalid UTF-8 sequences in
  pango_layout_set_text [#33195]
* Bugs fixed in this release:
  332167,332538,331995

Overview of changes between 1.11.5 and 1.11.6
=============================================
* Do not export macros PANGO_GLYPH_EMPTY, PANGO_GLYPH_UNKNOWN_FLAG and
  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
=============================================
* 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
=============================================
* 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
=============================================
* 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
=============================================
* 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