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.
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)
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
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.
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
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).
Transliteration software for Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Assamese, Belarusian, Russian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian in Cyrillic. Needs Microsoft Word or WordPad. Commercial. Windows.
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 site has download links to Proshika's Shabda (word processor), Nirbhool (spell checker), Annaroup (text converter), and ProData (visual foxpro, Bangla database) software. Windows. Commercial. (You need to download the software then buy the registration key)
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.
