First Little Step

Well, first of all you'd have to make sure that you can read the Bangla Unicode characters (which will be here throughout the journey).

Try to read the following sentence:

আমি এই বাক্যটি পড়তে পারছি। কোন সমস্যা হচ্ছে না। ওয়াও, আমি প্রস্তুত!

Can you read it? If yes, you're ready to proceed. If not, carry out the following instructions.

I'm assuming that you're using WINDOWS XP [SERVICE PACK 2].

Step 01:
Download the latest version of Internet Explorer(IE6+) or Firefox browser(Firefox 1.5)

Step 02:

Download Unicode Bangla fonts from the web and install them on your operating system; quite a few of these fonts are freely available.

Step 03:

Go to control panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Language, and check the "Install files for complex scripts and right-to-left languages" option. You will need your Windows XP SP2 installer CD to install these new files.

Step 04:

Install Bangla support on your browsers:

On Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> General -> Languages, and add Bengali as a language.

On Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Edit Languages..., and add Bengali as a language.

Step 05:

Go to your browser's "view" menu and set the "character encoding" or "encoding" feature to: Unicode (UTF-8).

Step 06:

If you want to change to a favorite Bangla Unicode font for your webpages:

For Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools-->Internet options-->Fonts, choose Bengali from the Language Script pulldown menu and select from one of the available Bangla fonts in your system.

For Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools -> Options -> Content tab -> Advanced... in the Fonts and colors section. In the pop up window titled "Fonts", select Bengali from the "Fonts for:" pulldown Menu and set a Bengali font of your choice for various kinds of fields like Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace, etc. to be shown on webpages.

Step 07:

If you want to write something in Bangla Unicode compliant environment, my suggestion is to download the Avro Keyboard.

Come back again to check if you could read that test sentence.

Hallo!

Hallo!