Pango, an open-source Unicode text layout engine

Open source development methologies have been used successfully for many different types of software, and are just as applicable to the task of rendering internationalized text. In particular, in the area of text rendering, an opensource approach provides the opportunity for local organizations and governments to actively contribute to development of support for scripts with smaller user commu nities, rather than simply waiting for for the software vendor to provide such support. The Pango project provides a highly modular framework for internationalized text layout and rendering, with the ability to incrementally add support for both new scripts for new new font technologies and rendering systems.