This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.12, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.12 include:

* Update to Unicode 5.0.0 character database

* Improved Indic rendering [LingNing Zhang]

* Improved documentation, including list of new symbols added in each
stable version of Pango [Priit Laes]

* Various bug fixes as usual

* The OpenType Layout code in Pango has a new home and name now, and is shared by Qt. HarfBuzz, is still copied internally in Pango, so no separate compilation/installation is necessary.

About Pango
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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. (Optionally 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.

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