<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Bangla in GNU/Linux HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Bangla in GNU/Linux HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Taneem Ahmed</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" > <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:taneem@_NOSPAM_bengalinux.org" >taneem@_NOSPAM_bengalinux.org</A >></TT > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN10" >Santanu Chatterjee</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" > <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:santanu@_NOSPAM_Softhome.net" >santanu@_NOSPAM_Softhome.net</A >></TT > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN16" >Progga</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" > <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:abulfazl@_NOSPAM_juniv.edu" >abulfazl@_NOSPAM_juniv.edu</A >></TT > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN21" >Sayamindu Dasgupta</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" > <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:unmadindu@_NOSPAM_bengalinux.org" >unmadindu@_NOSPAM_bengalinux.org</A >></TT > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="pubdate" >2003-04-25<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-10-23</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: Pro</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Some info on Qt and KDE 3.2's ability to render bn text is added at the very end.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-04-29</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: SDG</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added section on testing the translations. Initial LDP release.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-04-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: Pro</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial LDP release, section added on Lekho</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-02-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: SDG</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added Developers' Guide, made some significant changes in the document structure</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-02-14</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: SDG</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial Release</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN59" ></A ><P ></P ><P >The purpose of this document is to guide you setup and develop support for Bengali (Bangla) in <SPAN CLASS="systemitem" ><SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GNU</SPAN >/Linux</SPAN >.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#preface" >Preface</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#copyright" >Copyright Information</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#disclaimer" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#newversions" >New Versions</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#credits" >Credits</A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="intro.html#feedback" >Feedback</A ></DT ><DT >1.7. <A HREF="intro.html#conventions" >Conventions used in this document</A ></DT ><DT >1.8. <A HREF="intro.html#purpose" >Purpose of this HOWTO</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="usersguide.html" >Users' Guide</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="usersguide.html#locale" >Setting up the locale for Bengali</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="usersguide.html#fonts" >Installing the Bengali Fonts</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="usersguide.html#keyboard" >Setting up the Bengali keyboard</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="usersguide.html#Bangla-Application" >Some "special" Bengali only applications</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="devguide.html" >Developers' Guide</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="devguide.html#devproc" >The general development process</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="devguide.html#prerequisites" >Pre-requisites</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="devguide.html#transguide" >Translators' Guide</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >A. <A HREF="appendix.html" >Appendix</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >A.1. <A HREF="sites.html" >Related Websites</A ></DT ><DT >A.2. <A HREF="volunteering.html" >Volunteering for the Bangla in GNU/Linux project</A ></DT ><DT >A.3. <A HREF="software.html" >Software which has Bangla rendering support</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >