Pango

Pango
Pango name written as intended
Developer:	Behdad Esfahbod
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 Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird mail client in Fedora Core 6 amongst others. Special permission was granted by the Mozilla Corporation as Pango has so far not been included in the Mozilla source code.^[1] Similarly, Debian's Iceweasel, Icedove and Iceape use Pango.

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

External links

• Pango website
• Pango introduction

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