Introduction to Culture of Bangladesh

Cultural Overview

How is the culture is affected?

Key Points: The country is unique by,

• By 6 seasons in the country
• By a number of religions but the dominant one is Islam
• By Internet and access to technology huge impact on young generation

From the birth to Teen

Usually honey is fed when a baby is born. For Muslims an Azan is presented.

Like most Muslim Countries when a kid turns into teenager if it’s a male he is circumcised.

Schools, College and University

5 years of primary school, 5 years of high school which makes total 10 years. Afterwards, 2 years of college. After 4 years undergrad in University.

There are madrasas… which has the education mostly based on Arabic.

How to install Avro-Keyboard/Scim-Avro in Fedora

Introduction

Yesterday, I found that usual methods for installing Avro Keyboard in Ubuntu are not working on Fedora Core. Being curious, I delved into the problem. After some experiments I found a good way to do this. Here are the steps to install avro-scim in fedora core as I reproduce,

1. First we should download latest version of avro-scim. Release list of scim-avro can be checked here. In the time of this post latest version of scim-avro is 0.0.2 which is at least 3 years old. Surely, it can be said that not much of work is really going on with scim-avro project which specifically targets Linux platform.

Lets download 0.0.2 version of scim-avro. Please enter this command opening a terminal (gnome-terminal etc.)

$ wget "http://scim-avro.googlecode.com/files/scim-avro-0.0.2.tar.gz"

Though the wiki instruction says to,

Download source code from
http://code.google.com/p/scim-avro/source/checkout and go to
downloaded directory

As of r31 it is not worth trying to compile it. The source in repository is broken. The error you will face in compiling the source is here

1. Please install scim package and development files package of scim. We need devel files for compiling scim-avro. Here’s the simple command to install scim and scim-devel. You have to apply this command with root privilege (either do an sudo or su to root).

    # yum -y install scim-devel scim

1. As we have everything on hand to install scim-avro now let’s extract source archive and change directory.

    $ tar -xzvf scim-avro-0.0.2.tar.gz
    $ cd scim-avro-0.0.2/

1. Change the file execution mode for configure file.

    $ chmod a+x configure

Run configure and build object.

$ ./configure
$ make

This is the step install scim-avro. You should run following command with root privilege.

# make install

1. Run following command as regular user (shouldn’t be used with root privilege):

    $ im-chooser

Input Method Selector Dialog Windows will appear on screen. Enlarge the window by dragging. On the right side of “Use SCIM” click preferences.

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This will open another dialog box titled “SCIM Input Method Setup”. Under IMEngine click global setup. Check Bengali and Others.

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1. Log out and log in to the user account. You’ll find scim-panel-gtk is running on the panel. By clicking the icon you can change the input mode and start typing bangla. If you face any problem please feel free to mention in comments of this post.

Thanks Arif Siddiquee and Omicron Lab for their efforts in scim-avro project.

This post is probably outdated by now.

Acknowledgements

Arif Siddiquee

References

OmicronLab

How to Install UniBijoy in Avro Keyboard

In this article we talk about version 5.5.0. For other version, instruction is generally same.

Avro Keyboard is the popular Bangla typing software. It is used world-wide by Bangla speaking people. Avro Keyboard project is developed and maintained by OmicronLab which they deliver free. Another software named Bijoy Keyboard exists on the market. Bijoy is losing because of it’s owner’s harsh business policies. There are several allegations against the proprietor of closed source Bijoy software. He issued a lawsuit against Avro Keyboard along with making abusive comments against Avro Keyboard and its developers in public.

People who are used to Bijoy Keyboard layout use Unibijoy, a fixed tradional keyboard layout with Avro. There are many differences between Bijoy Keyboard Layout and UniBijoy layout. It is stupid to patent keyboard layouts. Keyboard layouts aren’t productions of neither creativity nor merit! A patent should always protect a unique work of merit.

By his (owner of Bijoy) desperate attempts in removing UniBijoy from Avro software he succeeded to slap Bangla speaking people in having freedom of choosing their desired keyboard layout. Bangla is the only language for the love of which handful of Bangladeshis were martyred in 1952. They are remembered with great respects, honors and love from the bottom of heart every year on 21st February. The day is also recognized and celebrated world-wide as International Mother Language day. Hence, this is never expected that software for writing Bangla will be a part of Business. So owner of Bijoy gets a significant percentage of the price every time you purchage a bangla keyboard.

Avro Keyboard is updating regularly. In one of the earlier version they had to removed UniBijoy layout for reasons mentioned above.

In this article we talk about using Unibijoy keyboard layout with latest keyboard software: Avro Keyboard 5.5.0. Avro Keyboard 5.5.0 comes with some new features and is the latest to the date. Here are the steps,

• First download Avro Keyboard 5.5.0 and install.
• After installation is complete it’s time to include your desired keyboard layout.
• Download Unibijoy keyboard from this link.
• After downloading the keyboard layout copy it to avro’s keyboard layout folder: C:\ProgramData\Avro Keyboard\Keyboard Layouts. If you are using Windows XP you have to put it in following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avro Keyboard\Keyboard Layouts
• Now exit avro keyboard and start again. Select UniBijoy from Keyboard Layout menu.

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Epilogue

There’s a component in Avro Keyboard called Keyboard Layout Editor. You can create your own keyboard layout in Avro. Also you can save the keyboard as a file and share with others.

Be careful. If it looks like Bijoy Keyboard the uncle may mind.

That’s all. Now you can start typing Bangla with any application that supports Unicode.

Commit(r2): July 26, 2016