Baby steps to a Bangla blog

Did you always aspire to have a Bangla blog of your own but never knew how to start? Well this post could be bring an end to your quest, as we guide you step-by-step to have your own Bangla blog, using universally acceptable Bangla fonts so that your posts can be read by anyone and everyone. While this discussion is mainly related to creating a Bangla blog at Blogger.com we believe that you can actually create one using any of the Blog hosting services provided they support UTF-8 character encoding and allow changing the blog template to insert the requisite meta information.

If Don't See Bangla (Unicode)

Temporary Solution (Dynamic Font):
You can download the Dynamic Font Installer. After download, run the software. You will see an icon in your system tray. Close the browser, re-open and browse the forum. You are now supposed to see Bangla.
Click here to Download Dynamic Font Installer

Permanent Solution (Recommended Method):
i) Automatic Configuration:
If you have Windows XP backup/CD:

* Download this software (80KB)
* Run the Software
* Click Install Complex Scripts
* You will need to show backup path

If you don't have Windows XP backup/CD:

* Download this software (4.5MB)
* Run the Software
* Click Install Complex Scripts




ii) Download Fonts
Click here to download & install Unicode fonts to your computer (Usually in C:\Windows\Fonts).

* SolaimanLipi (Miror1 Direct Link),
* Free Bangla Fonts

To install fonts, just copy and then paste the fonts to your Fonts directory (e.g. C:\Windows\Fonts).

iii) Browser Settings
In your browser, set the Encoding to utf-8. For Internet Explorer this is found in View->Encoding menu. In Firefix, you would find View->Character Encoding.