Feature description: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=457307 documents a desire to remove pango-view from builds.

To do so, we'd need a replacement that does the following:

* src/platform/bmpblk/strings/text_to_png_svg
  
  Called from a Makefile in a few places:
  http://cs/search/?q=(build_font%7Ctext_to_png_svg)+package:%5Echromeos_public$&m=25&type=cs . Uses 
  minimal Pango-markup.

* src/platform/initramfs/recovery/make_images

  Generates static images during ebuild stored in /etc/screens. (How did this
  not fail during build per Comment 18?)

* src/platform/assets/text/display_boot_message

  Starts Frecon, dynamically generates images from text input, produces 
  animations (!!!)/spinner.

* src/platform/factory/sh/cutoff/display_wipe_message.sh

  Used in Factory process to display Pango-markup-formatted instructions. 
  Uses Frecon. Dynamically generated.

The list of features that are mandatory in a strict replacement:
* Support for Unicode writing systems through Harfbuzz (shaping), libraqm
  (wrapping and bidirectional language support), and ICU (Unicode handling).
* Some kind of canvas library
* A PNG encoder (libpng)
* An SVG encoder (and all of its dependencies)
* Support for Pango Markup (a HTML-esq-but-not quite markup language).

Eng owner: jclinton