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>Software which has Bangla rendering support</TITLE
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>A. Appendix</TD
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>A.3. Software which has Bangla rendering support</H1
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> Rendering of the Bangla script is a complex job, especially when one has to be
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within the Unicode limits. Hence, the technology behind Bangla rendering is considered to be
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quite <SPAN
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>"bleeding edge"</SPAN
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>, and only the latest software support it. For example, Bangla
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text rendering support is there only in the latest <SPAN
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>Qt</SPAN
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toolkit (Qt 3.2) which is used for <SPAN
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>KDE</SPAN
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>Pango</SPAN
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>, which is the text
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rendering/layout engine of <SPAN
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CLASS="systemitem"
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>GTK 2</SPAN
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>. Pango 1.1.1 and above
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has a seperate module for Bangla. In addition to that, in the Free Software world,
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>Yudit</SPAN
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> can render Bangla
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text correctly. However, the situation is improving slowly, and in the near future, we will
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probably see Bangla rendering in <SPAN
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>Mozilla</SPAN
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>,
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<SPAN
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>OpenOffice</SPAN
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>, etc. In fact, the beta version of OpenOffice (at the time
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of writing) has partial support for Bangla - however, it still has some serious problems with
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the split vowel signs. Starting from version 3.2.0, KDE applications (will) officially support
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Bangla rendering too. </P
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