Open Directory - Computers: Software: Globalization: Language Specific: Bangla
See also: - An UNICODE supported Bangla typing software with most popular Bangla keyboard layouts from Bangladesh and India. Freeware. For Windows Only. - 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. - 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) - Commercial company developing Bornosoft - a transliteration based Bangla writing software. - 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 printing Bengali text files using OpenType fonts. This is a feature currently not available in most of the popular text editors, eg. gedit, and kedit. Linux. GPLd - 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 download under the GNU GPL - 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. - This is an open source version of BangSee. It provides free Phonetic Bangla codes for Bangla Community developed in Java and C/C++ - 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. - Paper by Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri dealing with an algorithm for checking Bangla spellings in scanned text (OCR). [PDF] - This is a page on the unicode consortium website containing the latest Bengali code point definitions in the unicode standard. Diagnostic page. [PDF]
