![]() ![]() Just by looking at the text, you will recognise which newspaper it belongs to. Imagine you have a torn piece of a leading daily newspaper in your hand. ![]() The importance of developing Bangla fonts He added that public institutions as well as NGOs have a role to play in raising awareness against piracy. On the rampant use of pirated versions, Mustafa Jabbar said, "It is rather unfortunate that those who are willing to buy expensive computers refuse to pay a fraction of it to buy software." So for a new competitor, things might be quite challenging." ![]() When asked why there are still so few functional Bangla typing software out there, he said, "Even I have a hard time developing and updating Bijoy Bangla software, and it has been in the market for so long. ![]() On the other hand, open source software has an open source code that anyone can work with." "Many organisations do business with free software, such as Google's Android, Meta's Facebook etc. Mustafa Jabbar further added that free and open source software are not the same. "Software should be free for all, how else do we proudly showcase our works in Bangla?" he exclaimed.Īccording to Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar, also developer of Bijoy, compared to commercially manufactured software, open source software is not as regularly updated or developed since they are created voluntarily. But I still think we are yet to give Bangla the respect it deserves in the digital medium," he said. "From not being able to write in Bangla on computers to using SutonnyMJ, we have come a long way. An original version of the software costs around Tk5,000 although most people in Bangladesh tend to use the pirated version.īeing a native Bangla speaker, why should anyone have to buy software to use Bangla? This is a question that baffles many, including Head of Creative at The Business Standard, Shalim Hossain Saju. In the world of Bangla typing software, Bijoy, founded in 1988, still remains the most widely used software, despite the arrival of free softwares such as Avro and Ridmik. Now if someone writes using the Unicode software but opens the doc file on a device that has Bijoy, the fonts break. Sometimes while writing conjunctives (juktoborno) on digital platforms, due to poor quality coding, the letters often break.įor example, the font Sutonny is available on Bijoy software. Understanding this positioning and use of letters is crucial for creating any font and many developers lack this skill. Here the eh-kaar is before the 'chhe' and 'le', but it is pronounced at the end. Take the word 'chhele' (boy in Bangla) as an example. But the main problem arises when you pronounce the word, where the vowel sounds come in the end. ![]()
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