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Scribus => Text and Typography => Topic started by: muhammodmasum on August 11, 2016, 12:37:49 AM

Title: Bengali text
Post by: muhammodmasum on August 11, 2016, 12:37:49 AM
I can't use Bengali text in Scribus. When I copy the Bengali text and paste it on Scribus then all text is broken, if I change the font and use any Bengali font, some font is working but still spelling mistake/broken and some font is not working at at all. Please help to solve this issue.

Bengali language is the 7th position of most widely spoken languages in the World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: a.l.e on August 11, 2016, 10:34:10 AM
hehehe... muhammodmasum, just pick a few of those 200 milions people and let them help out and get your language supported by scribus!

it's free software: all our code are belong to you!

anyway, a big effort is underway to support arabic and it will also widely profit indic scripts.

so:

- during the next few months you should get what you want in scribus 1.5.3.
- help from people from bangladesh and india would be very useful and could help making scribus better.

get in touch with me if you can provide a contact to an association/group that can help us!
Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: muhammodmasum on August 11, 2016, 07:49:57 PM
Thank you very much for your nice reply.

May be the following networks will be able to do that...


http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Keyboard
http://forum.omicronlab.com/
http://www.ekushey.org/
http://mozillabd.org/
http://blog.mozillabd.org/2016/03/activities-bangladeshi-firefox-clubs-february/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BangladeshiTeam
http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=64
http://www.bdosn.org/


Waiting for next version!
Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: muhammodmasum on August 24, 2016, 12:33:11 PM
I think they don't know about scribus -

http://spoken-tutorial.org/mission/
http://process.spoken-tutorial.org/index.php/Software-Training
Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: muhammodmasum on October 15, 2017, 06:21:20 PM
Thank you very much. Now Bengali text is working ok. A great Thank you.
Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: Salim Reza Newton on May 14, 2019, 08:05:02 AM
Please tell me how did you do that? How did you configure Scribus to write/display Bangla texts.

Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Bengali text
Post by: a.l.e on May 14, 2019, 08:53:12 AM
hi salim

all you need is the latest development release of scribus (1.5.4 at the time of writing) and a good otf font that supports your language...

since i only read and write "latin languages" i can't help you much with the font choice.
does anybody in here have any hint?