Pango
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| Developer: | Behdad Esfahbod |
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| OS: | Unix-like |
| Genre: | Text rendering |
| License: | LGPL |
| Website: | www.pango.org |
Pango (Παν語) is a free and open source computing library for rendering internationalized texts in high quality. Different font backends can be used, allowing cross-platform support.
Utilisation
Pango has been integrated into most Linux distributions. It most notably provides the rendering for text in the
Name
The name pango is from Greek "Pan" (Παν; lit. all) + Chinese/Japanese/Korean "Go" (語; lit. language), also Latin "pango" (I fasten), and Māori "pango" (black).
Text and graphics
Complete text handling and graphics rendering is provided when integrated with Cairo.
See also
- Uniscribe (Windows multilingual text rendering engine)
- WorldScript (Old Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine)
- Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (New Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine)
- Graphite (multiplatform open source renderer from SIL)
- Cairo a vector-based graphics library with multiple backends
References
- ^ Fedora Project. "Fedora Core 6 Release Notes". Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
External links
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