Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-19 Thread Omi Azad
Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote: >>I went to the link. But I didn't understand the word or key 'zwnj'. What >>doest this mean? >> >>Ashfaq >> >> >I think it means Zero-width non-joiner? > > Yes! That is Zero Width Non-Joiner. All the layouts we designed has that key placed somewhere. You need

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-17 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Ashfaq wrote: >> Ra-Japhola should be typed as: >>http://ekushey.org/projects/shadhinota/technical/rajaphola_exception.htm >> >> > > >I went to the link. But I didn't understand the word or key 'zwnj'. What >doest this mean? > >Ashfaq > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-17 Thread Ashfaq
> > Ra-Japhola should be typed as: > http://ekushey.org/projects/shadhinota/technical/rajaphola_exception.htm I went to the link. But I didn't understand the word or key 'zwnj'. What doest this mean? Ashfaq [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yaho

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-16 Thread Omi Azad
Sajed Chowdhury wrote: >Yes, but one potential risk is that the RAB forces might not like >seeing their name misspelled. > > I tried and successfully solved the problem on Windows, now you can solve it at Linux end. Ra-Japhola should be typed as: http://ekushey.org/projects/shadhinota/technica

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-14 Thread Sajed Chowdhury
Omi Azad wrote: > All Bangladeshi Bangla web > portals should change their typical system and switch to latest Unicode? Yes, but one potential risk is that the RAB forces might not like seeing their name misspelled. -Sajed Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-->

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-14 Thread Omi Azad
Hi Sumon, If Ekushey cannot deliver a layout editor for Linux then it's a shame for the brand. :) Ekushey never made solutions, it uses the current solutions for ease Bangla computing and then introduce them to the end users. I successfully made UniJoy layout for Linux and was using that in my

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-13 Thread Md. Zahidur Rahman (Sumon)
Omi Bhai how r u? can Ekushey make any keyboard editor which user can modify for writing in Bangla? so that user can get any keyboard layout that he want. actually i want a layout which will be platform independent and highly flexible to accomodate user's requirements. bye sumon On 12/11/05, O

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-12 Thread Omi Azad
Na Sajed Bhai, This will not work. There is no XKB file for Bi-joy and that is not possible. If you have a look at the B-Joy typing system then you'll understand the concept. It's not one letter on one key. There are some dead key sequence. And XKB only supports ASCII dead key (eg. a + ^ = รข) s

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-10 Thread Sajed Chowdhury
Md Mozammel Haque wrote: > Is there any bijoy clone for unicode typing under linux You can find the XKB symbol for Bijoy keyboard in Progga's "Bangla PDF HOWTO" which is available in all LDP mirrors. E.g.: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bangla-PDF-HOWTO/keyboard.html -Sajed --

Re: [bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-10 Thread Omi Azad
Yes! We made Bijoy clone Unicode typing system, which is UniJoy. http://www.ekushey.org is delivering the windows port currently and Linux port is still in R&D status. If you want Linux help then you have to ask it in http://egroups.com/group/ekushey/ Omi Md Mozammel Haque wrote: >Hi guyz, >

[bdlug] intro to bangla writing in linux

2005-12-10 Thread Md Mozammel Haque
Hi guyz, Can anyone please guide me how to write bangla in linux? I'm quite fluent with the bijoy keyboard layout, but most of my time (95%) I work on linux (CentOS 4.2). I use localization bn_bd and got bangla displayed properly. Now I want to select a stable layout bangla typing. Is there any bi