<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Software which has Bangla rendering support</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Bangla in GNU/Linux HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Appendix" HREF="appendix.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Volunteering for the Bangla in GNU/Linux project" HREF="volunteering.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Bangla in GNU/Linux HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="volunteering.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >A. Appendix</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="software" ></A >A.3. Software which has Bangla rendering support</H1 ><P > Rendering of the Bangla script is a complex job, especially when one has to be within the Unicode limits. Hence, the technology behind Bangla rendering is considered to be quite <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"bleeding edge"</SPAN >, and only the latest software support it. For example, Bangla text rendering support is there only in the latest <SPAN CLASS="systemitem" >Qt</SPAN > toolkit (Qt 3.2) which is used for <SPAN CLASS="application" ><SPAN CLASS="acronym" >KDE</SPAN ></SPAN > and <A HREF="http://www.pango.org" TARGET="_top" ><SPAN CLASS="application" >Pango</SPAN ></A >, which is the text rendering/layout engine of <SPAN CLASS="systemitem" >GTK 2</SPAN >. Pango 1.1.1 and above has a seperate module for Bangla. In addition to that, in the Free Software world, <A HREF="http://www.yudit.org" TARGET="_top" ><SPAN CLASS="application" >Yudit</SPAN ></A > can render Bangla text correctly. However, the situation is improving slowly, and in the near future, we will probably see Bangla rendering in <SPAN CLASS="application" >Mozilla</SPAN >, <SPAN CLASS="application" >OpenOffice</SPAN >, etc. In fact, the beta version of OpenOffice (at the time of writing) has partial support for Bangla - however, it still has some serious problems with the split vowel signs. Starting from version 3.2.0, KDE applications (will) officially support Bangla rendering too. </P ></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" ><A HREF="volunteering.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Volunteering for the Bangla in GNU/Linux project</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="appendix.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >