About Keyboard Layouts
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Another salient feature of Baishakhi Project is the design of a new Bangla keyboard layout named “Baishakhi”. This is fully UNICODE 5.0 compatible and the layout being phonetic, it is very easy to type Bangla using this keyboard layout. It is a 3-layer keyboard, with Normal, Shift and Alt modes, designed to accommodate the Bangla alphabets and signs.  The layout of the keys has been arranged through the following considerations:

  	The relative frequency of occurrence and co-occurrence of the alphabets and matras have been studied over multiple corpus.
  	The layout attempts to be mnemonic (easy to remember) for those, who are familiar with English QWERTY keyboards.
  	As far as possible, the Bangla alphabets have been kept at English key positions, having similar utterance. ( For example, g for গ and G for ঘ ).
  	Deviations from the above were necessary. These have been done, wherever required, keeping the frequency of usage in consideration.
         Beside this Keyboard another two keyborad layouts 'Baishakhi Inscript' and 'Uni Gitanjali' which are the modified version of original Inscript and Gitanjali layout.
Platform: 
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Linux

How To Install
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1.Download the Package.
2.Double click on Downloded Package and follow the instructions as in Installation Setup