AVRO KEYBOARD

AVRO KEYBOARD

DESCRIPTION

Avro Keyboard (Bengali: অভ্র কিবোর্ড) is a free and open source graphical keyboard software developed by OmicronLab for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOSoperating system. It is the first free Unicodeand ANSI compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows that was published on 26 March, 2003.

Avro Keyboard has support for fixed keyboard layout and phonetic layout named "Avro Phonetic" that allows typing Bengali through romanized transliteration. Avro Keyboard comes with many additional features; auto correction, spell checker, a font fixer tool to set default Bengali font, a keyboard layout editor, Unicode to ANSI converter, ANSI to Unicode converter and a set of Bengali Unicode and ANSI fonts. This software is provided in a Standard Installer edition and Portable edition for Windows.

Avro Keyboard has customizable mode switching with automatic tracking and has a larger field of compatibility. Users can get all popular Bengali typing methods in a single software.

When 'bangla' is typed, its transliteration will be written

Other features include:

Both Unicode and ANSI support: Avro keyboard supports writing Bengali text in both Unicode and ANSI. But just because Bengali language is a complex language script & only Unicode has the fully supports therefore 'Unicode' is the default output rendering for Avro.

To write Bengali ANSI is pretty outdated encoding system & it is not recommended.

English to Bengali phonetic typing: If 'ami banglay gan gai' is typed then 'আমি বাংলায় গান গাই' will be written.

Avro Phonetic Keyboard Layout

Traditional fixed keyboard layout-based typing: Several fixed keyboard layouts like Probhat, Jatiya (National), Bornona, Avro Easy, Munir Optima are provided with Avro keyboard software to write Bengali.

Mouse-based Bengali typing: Typing can be done by clicking the character symbols on the keyboard layout picture.

Spell Check on the fly: For phonetic typing, Avro keyboard provides a list of correct word on the fly from dictionary based on the typing. Correct word can be chosen from the list.

Spell checker program: Avro provided a spell checker as separate program. There is a spell checker plug-in for Microsoft Word.

Input language/input locale support: If the Bengali language support is absent in the operating system even then Bengali script can be written by installing Avro.

Customizable mode-switching (single key/key combination): Single key or multiple key combination can be used to switch between languages.

Automatic keyboard mode and input language tracking: If Bengali and English are being typed in two different programs then Avro can detect the language and can continue typing in the correct language.

Key layout viewer on the fly: A keyboard layout image can be seen on the screen for typing help.

Customizing Keyboard layout: New Keyboard layout can be created or the character settlement of existing keyboard keys can be rearranged by using the Avro keyboard layout changer which can be distributed and adopted like plugins.

Unicode and ANSI based fonts availability: Avro supports and provides Bengali Unicode and ANSI standard fonts. Any Unicode based Bengali font can be used with Avro besides ANSI fonts.

User editable dictionary support for phonetic typing: There is a Bengali dictionary in Avro keyboard for automatic correction. The editions of two auto correct dictionaries of different computers can be merged.

Keyboard macro support: Multiple key can be combined to write custom word or sentence as a command.

Unicode to Bijoy converter: There is a program called Unicode to Bijoy converter to convert Unicode Bengali text to ASCII (or Bijoy) standard.

Avro Converter: Avro converter can convert ASCII/ANSI based Bangla documents written by Bijoy, Alpona, Proshika Shabda and Proborton formats to Unicode, without losing formatting. Avro Converter supports a variety of document types (*.txt, *.rft, *.doc, *.docx, *.mdb) conversion by OLE Automation method. With development focus solely on Avro Keyboard, OmicronLab has discontinued further development of Avro Converter.[7]

Support forum for products: There is an online forum from the OmicronLab accompanied with homepage to help the user of their products and discuss various issues. This forum is also used for feature suggestion and further development.

Assamese language can be typed by Avro.

NO SPECIFIC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NEEDED

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