Bangla Typing with Avro Keyboard
Posted by m@q on April 27, 2008
Like the most of the Bangladeshi people, I don’t know the Bangla keyboard layouts. Because in Bangla scripts we’ve 11 vowels, 35 consonants, 5 modifiers and numerous consonant conjuncts. To make it more complex, there are several keyboard layouts which are differ from each other. It is a quite difficult matter for me to be handy with one of those keyboards. What a shame for me! Being a Bangladeshi I don’t know how to write Bangla in IT world! But that problem was pacified when I met with Avro Keyboard.
I received several questions from my known-circles about how a complete idiotic ignorant of Bangla Key-layouts like me writes in Bangla. Actually that’s why I must thank to Avro Keyboard. Because this keyboard supports English to Bangla phonetic typing method. That means if you write “amar sonar bangla.“ it’ll show “আমার সোনার বাংলা।“ automatically. Isn’t it fantastic! See a snap shot on how your English text is converting to Bangla using Avro Keyboard.
Avro Keyboard is a free software. Any one can download it. After installing it’ll be automatically stored in your system tray leaving a small toolbar on the top of your desktop. This toolbar indexes all the options for using the keyboard. This tool bar is also very stylish in outfits. Just look it at below.
Another exciting feature is that you can use mouse for typing Bangla like the Character Map of Windows OS. For the totally newbies (who even can’t use keyboard) this is a damn good option for writing in Bangla.
Now you all know my secret of writing Bangla in the Blogosphere or in Facebook or Orkut! But to use it on your browser first you need to set up your browser for Bangla Unicode. I prefer Firefox for that job. Read my guide for Firefox users to prepare Firefox for Bangla unicode.
May 6, 2008 at 8:25 pm
achha vaia,
kicho kicho bangla site ache zei gula pc te bangla set up na thakleo dekha jay. Internet Explorer e…eita kivabe kore? janaben ektu?
May 7, 2008 at 4:55 pm
wow …gre8 customization
May 7, 2008 at 11:54 pm
@ RAIHAN
Well… Raihan I actually don’t know how they do that… probably IE automatically configures Bangla setup (as it is come with Windows)… I actually don’t know the reason(as I’ve not studied in Computer science
)…
@ GHALIB HASNAIN
Thnx for the visit…
May 12, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Thank you for posting such a nice post. I also love and use the features of Avro Keyboard, specially avro portable.
Well, there’s a problem I’ve met few days ago. I have created an EOT font and tried to add that on my blogspot page, but I failed. Would you please help me in doing this?
If you wish to help me, please make another post describing the whole working process how to add an EOT font on website including blogspot page. Thank you. I hope you will help me.
May 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm
@ Sajib
Thanx for dropping by. Well I am not that much professional for solving your problem (Specially in Embedded Open Type fonts). I recommend you to ask the solution to the real geeks. Any way what ever I know about EOT is it is the sole technology of Microsoft. So if you tried it with FF or Opera it may not work.
I can give you the following link where you can find something really helpful.
LINK for “How to embed Bangla Fonts in webpages”
July 24, 2008 at 12:37 am
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