Web Directory

» Ankur : Bangla (Bengali) support for OSS
   This website gather several sub-projects aimed at developing input methods and applications supporting Bangla on Linux. It also provides infrastructure for people who want to translate documentation to Bangla.
   http://www.bengalinux.org/

» Avro Keyboard
   An UNICODE supported Bangla typing software with most popular Bangla keyboard layouts from Bangladesh and India. Freeware. For Windows Only.
   http://www.omicronlab.com/avrokeyboard/

» Bengali - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
   Test your Web browser and fonts for the ability to display the Unicode Bengali range of characters. Part of Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.Diagnostic page.
   http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/bengali.html

» Bengali Writer
   Set of utilities for editing and typesetting in Bangla. Provided are a set of fonts in several formats (METAFONT, BDF, PS), a text editor with spell checking and export to LaTeX. Free, under GPL. Unix, Linux (X11 systems)
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/bengaliwriter/

» Bornosoft
   Commercial company developing Bornosoft - a transliteration based Bangla writing software.
   http://www.bornosoft.com

» Bspeller
   A light weight text editor with a Bengali spell checker. The spell checker is based on GNU Aspell Library. This program is part of the Bengali dictionary project, and uses the word list provided by the project. Bspeller also has an unique feature of print
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43331

» Ekushey
   Free Bengali typing add-in for MSWord 97/2000/XP. Supports multiple keyboard layouts and Bangla font types. Installs with 5 TTFs. Also allows automatic transliteration between Bangla and English, export to TEX. Windows. Open source under GPL.
   http://www.altruists.org/software/21

» Free Bangla Fonts Project
   This is a volunteer run project dedicated to creating free, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bangla fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bangla fonts. The site has several OT Bangla fonts for free downl
   http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/

» Indian Language Software from Lingua
   Executive is an add-on for Microsoft Word. It integrates with Word to allow the processing of multiple scripts in a single document. Complete range of characters in all languages (including the most complex Bengali conjuncts).
   http://www.lingua-uk.com/1indian.htm

» Lekho : A Bangla Unicode Editor
   Plain text Unicode editor for Bangla. Has a spell checker, undo/redo, and exports to Bangtex. It is based on the QT toolkit. Runs on X11 (Linux, freeBSD, Unix) and windows systems. GPLd.
   http://lekho.sourceforge.net

» OpenBangSee
   This is an open source version of BangSee. It provides free Phonetic Bangla codes for Bangla Community developed in Java and C/C++
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/openbangsee/

» Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions, Bangla
   Contains downloads for a Bangla TTF, a Bangla editor, a Bangla spell checker, Bengali-English dictionary, printed Bangla document images and Bangla text corpus in electronic form.
   http://www.isical.ac.in/~rc_bangla/proj_basic.html

» Reversed Word Dictionary and Phonetically Similar Word Grouping Based Spell-Checker to Bangla Text
   Paper by Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri dealing with an algorithm for checking Bangla spellings in scanned text (OCR).
   http://www.emille.lancs.ac.uk/lesal/bangla.pdf

» Unicode Bengali Code Chart
   This is a page on the unicode consortium website containing the latest Bengali code point definitions in the unicode standard. Diagnostic page.
   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf