Introduction
The goal of the Pango project is to provide an open-source framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text. Pango is an offshoot of the GTK+ and GNOME projects, and the initial focus is operation in those environments, however there is nothing fundamentally GTK+ or GNOME specific about Pango. Pango uses Unicode for all of its encoding, and will eventually support output in all the worlds major languages.
The name is:
Greek "Pan" / U03A0 U03B1 U03BD / All
+
Japanese "Go" / U8A9E / Language
So, properly written, it looks like: 
(image rendered by Pango).
Status
- Status Report #8 (11 Nov 2000)
- Status Report #7 (31 May 2000)
- Status Report #6 (25 Apr 2000)
- Status Report #5 (4 Apr 2000)
- Status Report #4 (10 Mar 2000)
- Status Report #3 (16 Feb 2000)
- Status Report #2 (9 Feb 2000)
- Status Report #1 (14 Jan 2000)
- TODO list
Last modified 18-Nov-2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>