

In order to facilitate data and document entry in Bangla, a number of keyboard layouts have been designed and implemented to suit the needs of different people habituated with different typing practices.

Based on these standardizations some font encoding converters have been developed that are discussed in the next section. This is in direct contrast with the plethora of non-standard Bangla software proliferating the market that hinders interoperability across different computers. SNLTR has established that Unicode 5.0 and above as the standard that can be adopted for different e-governance applications and is also in parity with the international practice and standard. In order to make computer applications, such as Document Processing, E-mailing, Calculations, possible in Bangla, in a way that is interoperable across different computing platforms, it was necessary to establish a standard for encoding the data. Standardization of Bangla Fonts and Codes
