The Bengali Writer (version 1.4)


Welcome to the Bengali Writer. This is a utility that converts a text written in Roman to a text in Bengali. You should follow a specific set of "simple" rules while writing the text in Roman, in order to get the desired output. The syntaxes for writing such texts are described and illustrated in a tutorial. The text you write (minus certain control characters) reads almost the same as that when you transliterate the output Bengali text into English. However, there are a few subtleties which you must understand before you use the converter. At this point I need to emphasize that you must know the proper spelling of the Bengali words (which you intend to write) since no dictionaries are maintained. If you feel that the conversion rules are too rigid and difficult, you may write to me.

The Bengali character set has been prepared using XPAINT. Attempts have been made so that the characters look like the printed versions of them as found in books published by the leading publishers in Calcutta, e.g., Mitra & Ghosh, Ananda Publishers, etc. The Bengali numbers are now included in the character set. The converter also provides the facility to insert English texts. I'm sure that there are a few juktakkhar's that escaped my notice. If you find one that is not listed in the list of juktakkhar's, please let me know that.

Enjoy the Bengali Writer.


The Bengali Writer

A tutorial

An example

Do it yourself

List of swarabarna's

List of banjonbarna's

List of juktaakkhar's


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