Editing Pango (section)

== History and naming ==
The name pango comes from Greek ''pan'' ([[wikt:παν|παν]], {{gloss|all}}) and Japanese ''go'' ([[wikt:語|語]], {{gloss|language}}).<ref>{{cite web
 | url         = http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-u-pango1/
 | title       = The Pango connection: Part 1
 | website = [[IBM]]
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090627223318/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-u-pango1/
 | archive-date = 27 June 2009
 | access-date  = 7 July 2011
 | url-status  = live}}</ref>

In January 2000, the merger of the GScript and GnomeText projects was named Pango.<ref>[https://people.redhat.com/otaylor/pango-mirror/status-000114.shtml Pango - Status - 2017-11-30], Owen Taylor, Redhat</ref><ref>[http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/03/21/guadec/guadec.html?page=2 GNOMEs in Paris: A Report from GUADEC], ''The most impressive part of their presentation was the discussion on Pango (the result of the GScript and GnomeText merger)'', 2000/03/21, By Chuck Toporek - O'Reilly Media</ref><ref>[http://www.levien.com/gnome/pango-0.1.html Pango proposal, rev 0.1], Raph Levien, 28 July 1999</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815092557/http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/gscript/ GScript - Unicode and Complex Text Processing], ''The GScript project has been merged with the GnomeText project. For information about the result, named Pango, see: https://www.pango.org If you have trouble accessing that site, there is a mirror here. By Owen Taylor</ref><ref>[http://www.levien.com/gnome/gnome-text.html  Gnome-Text API documentation], Raph Levien, 10 Jul 1999, ''Owen Taylor is working on gscript, which has some overlap with the functions described in this interface. We're working on unifying the two api's as much as possible.''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://beast.testbit.eu/_mirror/gnome-news/946276088.html|title=GNOME Developer's Interview Follow-up|first=Ali|last=Abdin|date=1999|website=beast.testbit.eu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602195924/http://beast.testbit.eu/_mirror/gnome-news/946276088.html|archive-date=2013-06-02}} ''Pango (which is the code name for a merger of my Gscript project and Raph Levien's GnomeText project) is a modular set of libraries for doing layout and rendering of international text. It's a bit similar to Microsoft's Uniscript or Apple's ATSUI.''</ref>

Pango version 1.0.0 was released 11 March 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gtk.org/pango-1.0.0-announce.html |title=Pango 1.0.0 released |access-date=2013-02-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020402201452/http://gtk.org/pango-1.0.0-announce.html |archive-date=April 2, 2002 }}</ref><ref>[https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-March/msg00022.html GTK user interface libraries, version 2.0]</ref>