Solution to Bangla Font viewing problem on Mozilla Firefox

A lot of complain about Bangla font viewing can be found on various blogs and forums. After many days I've found a solution to Bangla font viewing problem on mozilla firefox. This solution is the most effective and tested on several computers, having different OS. So now let's see the solution.

First of all, you'll need to have the font, 'SolaimanLipi'. Download the font from here. Secondly, you'll have to download Avro Keyboard and install it on your computer. After installation, go to the folder where you've installed Avro keyboard. It's probably in C:\Program files\Avro Keyboard\. Here you'll find a file named Font fixer. Click on it. When it will open, select 'SolaimanLipi' from the drop-down menu of 'Choose your font'. Now click 'Fix it. Then you'll be asked to restart PC to take effect. Restart your PC. That's all about font configuration on system.

Now let's configure Firefox. Here first of all, click 'Tools' from the menu bar and then click 'Options'. If you don't see menu bar, click 'Firefox' on the top right side of your firefox window. Here you'll see a bunch of functions in two columns. On the 2nd column you'll see 'options'. Click it. Then click 'Content' tab. Here On 'Fonts & Colors' tab, select 'Times New Roman' as default font. Now click 'Advanced'. Here make changes like the setting given below:

Fonts for : Western
Proportional : Serif
Serif : Times New Roman
Sans-serif : SolaimanLipi
Monospace : Tahoma

Place a tick mark on the check box of 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection above'. Leave it without any change if you already see the tick mark on the check box of this option.

Now select 'Unicode (UTF-8)' as default Character Encoding on 'Character Encoding' tab. Now click OK. and close the options again pressing OK.

That's all. Now restart your browser and then you'll find that all your Bangla font viewing related problems have been solved.

Write and Read Bangla On Web on mobiles that doesn’t support Bangla

Bangla is now the 5th largest spoken language in the world. Now in the time of web, the use of Bangla has been increased vastly. Users of internet has also been increased in Bangladesh. Now many Bangladeshis write their status message, write blog and many other things in Bangla. But who use mobile phone, can’t read or write Bangla on web if their phone doesn’t support Bangla. Opera mini has brought the solution. You can both write and read Bangla on web using a opera mini web browser on your compatible handset.

 

Reading Bangla:

Don’t worry if your phone has no Bangla language support. You can easily see Bangla writing on web using opera mini. For this you’ll need to make a simple change in opera mini’s user agent setting. To do this tusk,

• Click opera mini’s address bar and write ‘opera:config’ and press go.
• When user agent setting page will appear, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
• You’ll see an option named ‘Use bitmap for complex fonts’. In default mode, the option is kept disabled. Enable it by making changing the setting to ‘Yes’ from ‘No’.
• Now click ‘Save’ and leave the page pressing ‘#4’

That’s all about enabling Bangla viewing feature as a complex script on opera mini. The phone that has in build Bangla font viewing feature, will not need the described process to view Bangla. Normally the phones shows Bangla Fonts.

The change of the setting is only for all versions of opera mini. Opera mobile doesn’t need this change.

 

Writing Bangla:

From now, you can write Bangla on web using your mobile phone even if that has no Bangla font installed in that’s system memory. It’s as simple as drinking water. Only you need to write Bangla on web is,

• A opera mini or opera mobile browser
• Copy, cut and paste option in phone’s default system

Now let’s come to the point. Just open opera mini and go to ‘http://writebangla.com/WriteAvroPhoneticBangla.html’ . Here you’ll see a blank box in the header ‘Bangla Input Box’. Here write the Bangla sentence in English alphabet and after writing press OK. Then You’ll see the some boxes in the box, under the header named ‘Convert English to Bangla’. Those are the unsupported Bangla fonts those has been converted from the English alphabets you wrote on Bangla input Box’. Now copy the unsupported texts and paste wherever you want.

Now enjoy reading and writing your favorite language, Bangla on web using your mobile, just like you do on your PC.

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Writing Bangla On web without software

Do you want to write and see Bengali (Bangla font) on internet while accessing through a mobile or computer? Well, you are in the right place. Follow these easy tips to use Bangla fonts on mobile and/or computer:

To Enable Bangla Reading and Writing on Mobile Phones

1.To see Bangla fonts on web, one needs to have java enabled mobile phone at first.

2. Installation of a compatible version of opera mini for the phone.

3. Write 'opera:config' on opera mini's address bar and then press 'Go'. You'll be redirected to opera mini's user agent setting page.

4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. You'll see an option named 'use bitmap for complex scripts'. As default, the option is disabled. Enable the feature pressing 'Yes' from the drop-down menu of this option. Then press 'Save'

After making this little change on user agent setting, you'll be able to see any writing written in Bangla on web. If a phone doesn't have Bangla font pre-installed as writing language, you can still write Bangla on web using the phone.

To write Bangla on web, a mobile phone needs to have the compatibility of 'opera mini 5 or higher' or the phone needs to have 'copy-cut' feature. If your phone have compatibility on these issues, just go to writebangla.com. Now write whatever you want on the text box on the page. Write just like you write Bangla using English alphabets. After finishing writing, press done or ok. The page will automatically be reloaded. Then you can see the converted fonts those you written in the blank box. On those Bangla fonts you'll see another editable text box where you'll see something like boxes. Those are the Bangla unicodes of the writings you wrote on first text box. Now copy those and paste on the text box where you want to write Bangla. You can write Bangla like this while sending emails, commenting on friends' wall posts on social networks or any other place on web. To see Bengali keymap, go here: AvroPhoneticKeymap.

To Enable Bangla Reading and Writing on Computer

Viewing and writing Bangla on compute is easier. You don't need to have specific web browser to read or write Bangla on web. The thing you need to have on your computer is, a unicode Bangla font installed in it. SolaimanLipi is a standard unicode Bangla font. Download it from here. Or write click on your mouse and click 'save link as' to download this font. After installing this font, you'll be able to read and write in Bangla on web. To install a font on computer, just copy or cut the font from the hard drive you kept the font and paste that on 'Fonts' folder, generally found in C://windows/Fonts. Just paste SolaimanLipi in this folder. The font will be installed.

One can write Bangla on web just as described above for writing Bangla using mobile phones. Click this link: OnlineWriteBanglaPad and write Bangla on web from computer following the instructions given in KeyMap. But you can directly do it using 'Avro keyboard'. Download Avro keyboard from here. Then follow the instructions given in that applications help tab to write Bangla correctly on web.

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