Currently, the JavaScript version is freezed, porting is under way to Golang, intended to be released in next major release. Avro was further developed primarily by Sarim Khan along with Rifat Un Nabi, Tanbin Islam Siyam, Ryan Kamal, Shabab Mustafa and Nipon Haque from OmicronLab. Later, it moved to iBus and javascript for its Linux version, first release on 20 July 2012, under MPL. Initially, the Linux version of it, v0.0.1, was written in C++, using scim, licensed under GPLv2 on 2 September 2009. After discussion, OmicronLab published the source code of windows version under MPL 1.1 license with the Avro Keyboard 5.0.5 public beta 1. Initially, it was developed in Visual Basic, which was later transferred to Delphi. It was first published on web for free download on 26 March 2003 under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Mehdi Hasan Khan, a student from Mymensingh Medical College. This software is provided in a Standard Installer edition and Portable edition for Windows.ĭevelopment of Avro Keyboard was started in 2003 by Dr.

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. It is the first free Unicode and ANSI compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows that was published on 26 March 2003.Īvro Keyboard has support for fixed keyboard layout and phonetic layout named 'Avro Phonetic' that allows typing Bengali through romanized transliteration. Avro Keyboard ( Bengali: অভ্র কিবোর্ড) is a free and open source graphical keyboard software developed by OmicronLab for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS, and several other software additionally adapted its phonetic layout for Android and iOS operating system.

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