Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> 2.0.7
> * Fixed memory corruption problems with some italic fonts
> * Fixed crash when opening a font file that doesn't exist
> 2.0.6
> * Fixed memory corruption problem with small point sizes
>
> Yow! Should all italic fonts be blocked?
>
> Also, the library provides no access to the character map.
> The only way to tell if a character is junk is to compare
> it it pixel-by-pixel against one that surely is junk.

Sometime in the future Tux Paint will *need* to move to using
Pango for text rendering. This is needed to support many
non-western scripts and languages (whose rendering is *extremely*
complex, but is automatically handled correctly by Pango).

Pango:
http://www.pango.org/

SDL_Pango:
http://sdlpango.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdlpango/

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer
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