Do not use Bangladesh Computer Council's Bengali fonts & Bangladesh National Keyboard driver, which they assumes as Unicode compliant.
I cannot accept BCC's release as 100% Unicode complaint. People will get in trouble if they use this crap stuff. Let me explain all the problems to and you can decide what to do :) 1: They used some fake letters (MON GORA মন গড়া) and there is no base of them in Unicode or ISO. They are Khio, Khanda-Ta and Bo-Fola. Have a look at http://www.bcc.net.bd/keyboard/layout/3_layer.jpg and http://www.bcc.net.bd/keyboard/layout/4_layer.jpg There is no place for Khio and Bo-Fola in Unicode code page. Have a look at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf Also Unicode decided to place Khanda-Ta at 09CE (ref. http://www.unicode.org/%7Eemuller/iwg/p12/index.html ) and once Unicode Consortium decides anything, they never change that. 2: When I opened their font, I found "Developed by Information Engineers & Consultants Bangladesh (iecb) Ltd for Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). © 2005 BCC. All Rights Reserved." but the glyphs (letters) are actually stolen from Linotype. Did BCC took license from LinoType for using them? I didn't found any document regarding that. Very sad that Government Organization is training us to pirate..... 3: When I went to convert a document with their converter, it gave me a error message, "C:\Program Files\IECB\Jatio Keyboard\Agency FB.diff was not found" May be BCC didn't pay IECB the total price of the contract and IECB didn't deliver the file with the Installer. 4: The installed folder is C:\Program Files\IECB\, which should be C:\Program Files\BCC\ (LOL) 5: I went to install the Debian Linux version and found the installer has nothing inside. Download the Linux (Debian Sarge)_installer from BCC website and extract it. You'll get a file called bn-National.mim, but do you know how to install/use that? :) If I tried, I'd find more problems, but I'm too disappointed to continue with that. Some of you must know that I'm working with Unicode and Microsoft since 2001 and I *never* found any of Bangladeshi Government body to contact with them regarding *any* issue. Do not use BCC Bangla Software. You have many other options around you.... Regards -- Omi Azad Contributor Bangla Computing and Localization Projects: Ankur: http://www.ankurbangla.org Ekushey: http://www.ekushey.org To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
