Avro Keyboard

Avro Keyboard

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Developer(s)	Omicronlab, Mehdi Hasan
Stable release	4.5.1 / July 2, 2007
Operating system	Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Type	Keyboard Layout Changer
License	Free
Website	www.omicronlab.com

Avro Keyboard (Template:Lang-bn) is a free, closed source, graphical keyboard layout changer for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is the first free Unicode-compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows. One of the main features of the program is its own phonetic layout for typing Bengali script, thus enabling users to type Bengali through its romanized transliteration. The software also has a keyboard layout editor.

Features

Avro Keyboard has customizable mode switching with automatic tracking and has a larger field of compatibility. Users can get all popular Bengali typing methods in a single software.

Other features include:

• English to Bengali phonetic typing,
• traditional keyboard layout-based typing,
• mouse-based Bengali typing,
• input language/input locale support,
• customizable mode-switching (single key/key combination),
• automatic keyboard mode and input language tracking,
• key layout viewer on the fly,
• keyboard macro support.

Awards and recognition

• Certified as a 100% clean from spyware/adware/virus on softpedia.
• Useful Unicode Resource.
• Bangladesh Election Commission used Avro for internal use and found it satisfactory.^{[citation needed]}
• Recommended to Bengali Wikipedia users.

See also

• History of Bengali computing

External links

• Avro Keyboard official page
• Omicron Lab
• Forum
• Exploring the base of Bangla in computers
• Making technology culture specific