Alpona keyboard Manager is a Unicode enabled Bangla keyboard manager. As planned it will have complete support for Bengali in Unicode under all 32-bit Windows including Windows XP, and will be supplied with various converters to change older bangla documents into Unicode. Planning phase software. Commercial. Windows.

This website gather several subprojects aimed at developing input methods and applications supporting bangla on Linux. It also provides infrastructure for people who want to translate documentation to bangla.

An UNICODE supported Bangla typing software with most popular Bangla keyboard layouts from Bangladesh and India. Freeware. For Windows Only.

This is a paper dealing with an algorithm for checking bangla spellings in scanned text (OCR). Pdf. Reference page.

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.

Mouse based bangla typing software. Windows

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

Bengali TeX Interface. Enables one to compose documents in the bangla script using latex. Freeware. Unix,linux, windows. Needs Latex installed. Also see BengaliWriter

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 & English, export to TEX. Windows. Open source under 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 spellchecker, 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++

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)

Developers of Lekhok a bangla word processor and Hateykhori, a bengali scripting software for children who would like to learn Bengali. Windows. Commercial

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

Contains a font encoded as per iso10646. Also contains an encoding file for is13194-bengali which was used by previous versions of the font. There are plans for a GUI virtual keyboard to make entering Bengali and other languages which use keyboard mapping nicer.

Project creates free completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts.

This is a page on the unicode consortium website containing the latest Bengali code point definitions in the unicode standard. Diagnostic page.