The most serviceable keyboard software available is Avro, the program used for Bichitra. These factors make the Bengali keyboard more cumbersome than the Roman. Most crucially, two or more letters can be combined in a single conjunct glyph, which may look very different from its constituent letters, and also vary from font to font in traditional print. These vowel markers phonetically follow the consonant but are sometimes written before, above or under it.
Bengali vowels are usually not written in full, but indicated by vowel markers attached to the consonants. It then describes the Bengali alphabet and script, indicating the special problems they create for electronic fonts. This chapter starts by outlining the status of the Bengali language in terms of demography and world culture.
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