Browser plugin to type Bangla (phonetic) – Write Bangla in Firefox/Chrome

Type Bangla/Bengali right now from your Browser!

Yes, that’s right! Once you install this script in your browser, you will not need any additional software (like Avro) to type Bangla. Once you install the script, you can type Bangla on any website! Just click any text-input box or textarea, press Control+m (in FireFox) or Control + y (in Google Chrome) – that switches the mode from English to Bangla & vice-versa.

Once more benefit, are you developing your own site? You want your visitors to comment/register in Bangla? you just tell them to install this script. Once they install it, they can type Bangla from their browser anytime. This is quite helpful if you want comments in Bangla from your visitors. For example, blogs hosted in WordPress.com don’t allow you to comment in Bangla. But when you/your visitors install our script, they can type Bangla on any Website!

Isn’t it cool? Check out the project in it’s official website 🙂

How to Install/Use:

 

Click here to go to the project’s website!

 

Keyboard Layout

ইংরেজি লেখার মত করে বাংলা লিখুন। যেমন, “পাখি” লেখার জন্য ক্রমানুসারে নিচের কী গুলো প্রেস করুন: p > a > k > h > i

 

Thanks to Hasin Hayder & Ekushey

Hasin Hayder (Author of the  phonetic typing  javasScript). Credits goes to  Ekushey . I just made their scripts compatible for Browser plug-n-play & added Greasemonkey userscript support.

 

Known Issues

• Doesn’t work on sites which have text-boxes with their own event Handlers. Google is one of them, most of the services by Google (i.e google search, gmail) uses their own javascript handlers, which override our script. That means, the script will not work on these sites.
• Our script works fine with any site which doesn’t override our event handlers (& you’ll be happy, most of the sites are friendly enough! like wordpress 😀 )
• wordpress.com ব্যবহারকারীরা সহজেই যেকোন ওয়ার্ডপ্রেস ব্লগে বাংলায় কমেন্ট করতে পারবেন। তাছাড়া কোন ব্লগ লেখার সময় Excerpt অংশে বাংলা টাইপ করে মূল পোস্টে কপি করে দিতে পারবেন! (যেসব সাইটের মূল টেক্সবক্সগুলো আমাদের স্ক্রিপ্ট সাপোর্ট করেনা,সেই সব সাইটে এই ট্রিকের মাধ্যমে বাংলা টাইপ করা যাবে! 😉 )

Links

• Our Script Homepage – Bookmark it for updates/support
• Bangla font: bangla font for windows and linux
• Bangla font for mac: download bangla font for mac
• icomplex 2.0.0: (You need to install this script to see Bangla properly in Windows XP)
• More On Ekushey – Specially for Developers