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Bangla Computing Related Links
(Note: Clicking on this links opens new window as they are outside of OmicronLab)

Corporate Bangla Sites/Products:
BBC Bangla : http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali/
(Read online Bangla news from this famous news media. Totally done using Unicode encoding.)

Google Bangladesh : http://www.google.com.bd/
(What to say, this is "our" Google!)

Bangla (India) interface for Windows Xp : http://www.microsoft.com/.......=bn
(You must have a genuine Windows to download this update.)

Educational Resources:
Online Bangla Open Encyclopedia (Wikipedia): http://bn.wikipedia.org/
(A must visit site!)

Online Bangla Literature Archive: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/...../bengali.html
(This project aims to create an archive of public domain Bengali literature accessible through the internet.)

Online Bangla to English Samsad Dictionary: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/....ngali/
(Totally Unicode based, but still doesn't have any web based virtual input systems. However, you may use Avro Keyboard to directly type & use this dictionary.)

Online English to Bangla Dictionary: http://www.bangladict.org/
(Uses ASCII encoding for the dictionary. Developed by: Systech Digital, Bangladesh.)



Bangla Font and Software Related:
Banglavista : http://www.banglavista.com/
(Get quality Bangla softwares. Another must visit site!)

Free Bangla Fonts Project : http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont
(Mother of all free open source Bangla font development project!)

Ekushey: http://www.ekushey.org/
(Open source Bangla open type fonts.)

Microsoft Typography: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/
(Not related to Bangla, but font development.)

Microsoft Weft : http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx
(For webmasters who need font embedding for their site.)



Bangla Web-based Applications/Interfaces:
Bangla Express Online Bangla mailing system. http://www.banglaexpress.org/
(Requires membership - free)



Organizations Related to Bangla and/or Unicode:
Unicode Consortium : http://www.unicode.org
(Hat's off from OmicronLab for this consortium!!!)

Bangla Innovation through Open Source: http://www.bios.org.bd/
(Largest open source developers group in Bangladesh)



Bangla On Linux:
BengaLinux project run by Ankur : www.bengalinux.org
(Get Linux, get it in Bangla!)



Bangla Articles/Documents:
Unicode Bangla Code Chart: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf
(Mainly for developers.)

Unicode And Bangla Computing: http://www.maruf42.com/archive/ct/unicode.pdf
(Get rid of confusions regarding Unicode and Bangla. Commented on Unicode 4.0, there has been some changes in the later version of Unicode which is not mentioned.)


Online Community:
Bangla ICT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangla_ict/
(On Yahoo groups.)

ICT Of Bangladesh : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ict_of_bangladesh/
(On Yahoo groups.)

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