![]() ![]() As businesses switched to computer-based publishing, they adopted Bijoy. ![]() He came up with a layout and software to translate the key presses into code points, and some fonts to display them. The first popular system was created by a Bengali named Mustafa Jabbar, who had a publishing company. A keyboard layout and software was needed. But Bangla has its own script (the alphabet has about 60 characters, but no case distinction), and there was no way to type it. So, with the coming of computers, Bengali people wanted to use their computers in their language. ![]() (Bangladesh became independent in 1971.) Bangladeshis see their right to use Bangla as one paid for in blood. At least five Bangladeshis were shot dead during a protest about wanting Bangla to be the national language of their part of Pakistan, rather than everyone having to learn Urdu, the language of West Pakistan. Back in 1952, Bangladesh was East Pakistan – Pakistan then being one nation in two parts, separated by a thousand miles of India. I wrote the first draft of this blog post on 21st of February, which is “ Shohid Dibosh“, Language Martyrs’ Day, in Bangladesh. The main language in Bangladesh is Bangla, which they take very seriously. I have recently been on a trip to Bangladesh. How would it feel if someone told you they had a patent on the way part of your brain worked, and you were not allowed to use it without paying them money? ![]()
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