Bengali Opentype Font

You need a Unicode font with Bengali glyphs to properly view the Bengali content at this site. Your operating system may already come with a suitable font; if not, you can find several on the internet. Any of these should work, although this site was mostly tested with the following font:

• Jamrul ( TTF, source )

This font is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The spirit of this license is approximately this: you are free to use and modify this font in any manner you want. You are also free to redistribute the original and any modifications to whomever you want, with the proviso that you do so under exactly the same licensing terms. Read the actual license for more precise details.

Windows Installation

There is more than one way to install these fonts, one of them is described below. (If you are a Windows user and don't know how to install a font, you will probably be confused by any more :-P )

Right click on the font links, and choose 'Save Target As' to download the fonts. Save the TTF files onto your Desktop. Next, click on the Start button, and choose 'Control Panel' in the menu that pops up. Somewhere in the window that comes up, you should find a folder named Fonts. Choose and open that folder.

To install the fonts, you basically have to copy them into this Fonts folder. To do this, you can now drag the TTF files from your Desktop into the Fonts folder. Equivalently, you can right click on the fonts on your Desktop, choose 'Copy' from the context menu, right click in an empty space inside the Font folder window, and choose 'Paste' from the context menu. You should see a dialog box pop up with two progress bars, and if it goes away after a while without any error messages, the font should have been installed.

Note that this step will fail if you already have a font with the same name installed (for example, an older version of the same font). In that case, you will have to first remove that font from the Fonts folder. To do this, identify the relevant font in the Fonts folder, right click on it, and choose 'Delete'. A dialog will probably pop up asking you if you REALLY want to delete the font. You have to click on the button that says 'Yes'. If you successfully navigate through this step, trying to install the font again should now succeed.

You should also turn on the 'Smooth edges of screen fonts' option in the Desktop Properties settings, which improves the legibility of the fonts considerably.

GNU/Linux and other Unix variants

You need to be running a system with a truetype font renderer (most likely Freetype). If you have fontconfig (you should consider upgrading if you don't), you need to copy the fonts over to the system Truetype font folder (or for a personal installation ~/.fonts/) and run fc-cache. Otherwise, consult your system documentation .