Pango

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What Does Pango Mean?

Pango is an open-source project which creates a uniform framework in order to render international text characters. The term Pango is a combination of Greek prefix “pan,” denoting “all,” and the Japanese word “go,” meaning “language.” International language users on the Internet find it very hard to find a correct representation of their language text because most software applications do not support characters in that language. Pango aims to combat this problem.

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Techopedia Explains Pango

Pango should not be mistakenly thought of as a language converter; it is simply a framework that aids in the display of underrepresented language characters in the form of electronic text. Nearly every language that is spoken and written in the world can be rendered by the Pango software tool. It caters to an extensive number of languages and characters, excluding as few symbols as possible.

Pango won the Open Source Initiative’s 2004 award because every language in existence can be electronically rendered by this open-source commercial software. Pango can be compared to a billboard where any language character or any sign character can be displayed along with the graphics to express a message.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.