Complete history of Bangla language through Unicode

bangla.uni.cc is a site where we try to make people understand what is Unicode and what the history of Unicode for Bangla Language. What we want to do here is to collect information on Unicode & Bangla then show it to millions of Bangali people who are interested to know about it around the world. You can also say that this site is a Blog of Unicode and Bangla.

||Beautiful story on Bangla Computing Usage and Bangla Keyboard Layout||
Zakaria Swapan and Muhammad Reza Sharif wrote two beautiful topics on current Bangla usage status.

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||Microsoft Released Bangla version of Wiondws XP!||
After a long wait Microsoft released the most popular OS of the world Windows XP's Bangla Interface. This initial release is only for the Bangla speaking users of India but later they will put Bangla support for Bangladesh on Windows Vista.

Genuine Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) users can enjoy the Bangla Interface by visiting Microsoft Website.
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||Microsoft Recommends Ekushey!||
Software giant Microsoft's Bhasha India project is recommending Ekushey as one of a Bangla Input Method. You can see more from Microsoft Bhasha home page.

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||JaFola Issue||
After we got KhandaTa, Dr. Gautam Sengupta, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, INDIA, Proposed Unicode to add JaFola (formally known as YaPhalaa) as a Unique letter. You have to read the proposal to know why he wants to add JaFola as a unique character.

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||Microsoft's new Bangla font looks good||
Microsoft Released official Bangla support with Windows XP Service Pack 2. But the default Bangla font (Vrinda) was not so good and lots of people ware complaining about it. This time MS people decided to change the look of Vrinda. We present you the preview of next version of Vrinda, which is made by Agfa Monotype. Right now we don't know what is the release date and which product they will deliver you the font. But as soon as we know, you will know this too.

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||We Got KhandaTa||
So finally Unicode added KhandaTa as a Unique character in the Bangla block of Unicode 4.1 codepage. The code for KhandaTa is U+09CE. You can see the whole issue.

||Protest Mustafa Jabbar||
Mr. Mustafa Jabbar is doing very wrong with Bangla language. Mr. Omi Azad wrote a topic about him. Although it is not related with the goal of this site, but it is a history of Bangla and people should know this

||Microsoft's Bangla Font||
You may want to see what Microsoft is making. I mean what Microsoft's Bangla font will look like. Well, Microsoft is going to supply Bangla support with Service Pack 2 of Windows XP in September 2004. As far I know there will be 3 Bangla fonts coming with the pack (although the SP2 RC2 Build: 2149 doesn't have any of them). You can see a sample here.

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||Latest KhandaTa issue review by Unicode ||
After passing so long time, Unicode and Microsoft decided to take some advices from mass people who thinks for Bangla. With the help of Microsoft, Unicode released a document for public review. Anyone can see this and say their comments to Unicode. You can also see the document and let them know your comments.

||Biswa Bharat's Thoughts on Bangla||
Have a look at what Biswa Bharat is saying to the world about Bangla.

||A Proposal 2 Unicode from Microsoft||
Working with Bangla UI font, Paul Nelson of Microsoft faced a lot of problems and then he proposed Unicode for applying some new rules. You can learn about this proposal too. Unicode made this proposal open to public, but we found that they removed that for some unknown reasons. So this is here for you.

||Latest KhondoTo issue ||
When everything is about Final & Microsoft is going to release it's Bangla version of windows, Andy White found some problems with typing KhandaTo. You can know the issue too.

||Topic on Unicode and Bangla||
The author tried to collect all information and history of Unicode for Bangla Language. We post it here so that people can know about the ins and outs of Unicode for Bangla Language.