Ubuntu: How to Type Bengali?

You can use scim to type Bangla in Probhat or Inscript layout, they all come with latest distro of Ubuntu (7.04).

In the terminal window, type:

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90im-switch

Now type and save the following lines in gedit:

$ export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
$ export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
$ export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
$ export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"

Press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, login again. Now you can see a keyboard icon in the system tray, click on it, select Bangla from the menu.

Press Ctrl+Space to switch between Bangla and English.

Original post at OmicronLab community

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