Localization/Bengali

This article describes how to set up a Wikipedia:Bengali language environment. It does not cover setting up Bengali/Bangla input on the console.

Fonts

ttf-freebanglafont^AUR - Font for Bangla
Avro Unicode Fonts & Lipighor free fonts - Install following Fonts#Manual installation

Locale

Open /etc/locale.gen with your favorite text editor. And then uncomment bn_BD.UTF-8 UTF-8 or bn_IN.UTF-8 UTF-8:

/etc/locale.gen

...
#bi_VU UTF-8
bn_BD UTF-8
#bn_IN UTF-8
...

and then run locale-gen. For more information please read this article

Input methods

There are two open source input method engines available from the AUR.

Avro supports phonetic input for Bangla in IBus via ibus-avro-git^AUR.
OpenBangla Keyboard supports Bangla phonetic (Avro phonetic), Probhat, Munir Optima layout for Bangla in IBus via openbangla-keyboard^AUR.
provider for Unijoy, Inscript, Probhat, Disha and ITRANS

See IBus to set up the engines above.

See also Input method for a list of available input-method frameworks.

Troubleshooting

Broken fonts in Firefox

Some applications (like Firefox) and Desktop Environments will use (, ttf-liberation, ttf-bitstream-vera, , , , , ) by default. The do not have full support for Bengali characters alignment. Consider using over or as a source.

No IBus Support in GNOME

The IBus preferences does not work with GNOME. Make sure to enable Avro/OpenBangla from .

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