Bangla Typer Software - mouse based typing software for Bangla Bangla Typer Software is a mouse based typing software for Bangla. Type using only a mouse.Windows freeware (they require registration via email) http://www.banglatyper.com

Lekho : A Bangla Unicode Editor 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. http://lekho.sourceforge.net

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/

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 & English, export to TEX. Windows. Open source under GPL. http://www.altruists.org/software/21

Protiva Software Developers of Lekhok a bangla word processor and Hateykhori, a bengali scripting software for children who would like to learn Bengali. Windows. Commercial http://www.protivasoft.com

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

TWiki . I18n . BengaliLanguage Some links and information (mainly in the form of FDL'd documentation) on getting linux to display/use bangla. There is information about bangla Open Type fonts, and encoding bangla in unicode. http://www.sandipb.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/I18n/BengaliLanguage

Bengali Software Digest One page of links to other bengali software pages. http://www.gy.com/www/bn.htm

KickKeys :Transliteration Software. Transliteration software for Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Assamese, Belarusian, Russian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian in Cyrillic. Needs Microsoft Word or WordPad. Commercial. Windows. http://www.kickkeys.com/

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

Bengali Writer Mouse based bangla typing software. Windows http://www.cat.cc.md.us/~nghosh/bw.html

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 download under the GNU GPL http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/

Shaheed's home page 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. http://www.aozw65.dsl.pipex.com/

Proshikha Computer Systems 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) http://www.bdonline.com/software/pshabda/index.htm

Alpona 2.0 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. http://www.akshor.com/keyman.html

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.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/bengali.html

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

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/

Bangtex This is a package for typesetting documents in Bangla using the Tex/Latex system. Freeware. Linux, Unix and Windows (needs Latex installed on the machine) http://tnp.saha.ernet.in/~pbpal/bangtex/bangtex.html

BWTI Homepage Bengali TeX Interface. Enables one to compose documents in the bangla script using latex. Freeware. Unix,linux, windows. Needs Latex installed. Also see BengaliWriter http://sunsite.iisc.ernet.in/collection/bengali/bwti/