couple of questin firsts: 1. Did BCC claimed that national keyboard is unicode compliant? 2. I am not unicode expert. Did BCC introduced any alphabet that stepped over current unicode bangla alphabhet?
Amader joga khichuree marka bangla font ar keyboard er somoy a, unicode e ekmatro solution. To achieve that, what we can do, 1. Force BCC to deal with Unicode consortium to make sure, newer unicode chart will have bangla font that were introduced in national keyboard. 2. If BCC already stepped over any unicode bangla font, talk to bcc (ankur should do it, as they are prominant in bangla realted matter) make them understand what an unresolvable matter they have introduced. Thanks, Mohammad --- In [email protected], Omi Azad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 à¦à§à¦¾) 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/
