Well not really. Avro did a lot for draw people's attention towards
Bangla typing. Not only Bangla typing, Unicode Bangla typing. It has
huge useful features. Apart from *nix support one should not ask for an
alternative of the same for Windows.
So if you need the features on your Windows OS, why you dream of another
soft! That was my only concern. AFIK, Avro guys are also in the R&D
stage for porting the same on Linux (no idea on the progress though),
they have a very BIG forum, where people can discuss all the stuffs.
As Raiyan mentioned before, only they have access to their source and
they knows how to port it to other OS or how to make one version that
will work on other OS.
Hope it's clear now. :)
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Omi Azad <http://omi.net.bd> *|* +8803894550305 *|* Contributor of
Ekushey <http://ekushey.org>
Mohammad Maruf Hossain wrote:
In response to Antony Brand's ideal Bangla software, you only raised
your eye brow for Avro's feature and none else. So, my exclamation
was: Are you jealous!
many regards,
M. Maruf Hossain
Researcher,
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The University of Melbourne
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~hossain/
<http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Ehossain/>
On 09/09/2008, at 2:48 PM, Omi Azad wrote:
I did not get your point Maruf!!!
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Omi Azad <http://omi.net.bd> *|* +8803894550305 *|* Contributor of
Ekushey <http://ekushey.org>
Mohammad Maruf Hossain wrote:
Jealous, Omi!
M. Maruf Hossain
Researcher,
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The University of Melbourne
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~hossain/
<http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Ehossain/>
On 09/09/2008, at 3:21 AM, Omi Azad wrote:
Avro is doing all that na?
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Omi Azad <http://omi.net.bd> *|* +8803894550305 *|* Contributor of
Ekushey <http://ekushey.org>
Ananga ---- Antony Brand wrote:
Hello
I was just daydreaming about my ideal multilingual software and
thought that it would:
1. allow you to create your own keyboard layout (like Avro)
2. allow you to take your own fonts with you wherever you go
(like Avro Portable)
3. allow you to type in bangla on someone else's computer (Avro
Portable does that for XP and Vista)
4. be available on Windows, Linux and Mac (Ekushey has made
buying a mac a possibility for me now. How long before Adobe
software handles indic scripts properly)
5. work for other languages (I've used Avro to type in Devanagari
and for accented Latin characters. Greek and Cyrillic would be
easy to implement).
I think that whoever can crack this one is sitting on a goldmine.
Get the whole thing to run platform independently from a web based
interface is on to a winner.
Feedback, either on the list or by email welcome
all the best
Antony Brand
Glastonbury, Somerset, Uk
