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Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing
BRAC University
66, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
Phone: +88 (02) 8824051-4 Ext:4023
Fax: +88 (02) 8810383
crblp-staff@student.bu.ac.bd

::--TTF to Unicode Font Converter--::

Name:: CRBLPConverter

Summary::

CRBLP team is working on a TTF to Unicode Font converter which will enable us to convert the ASCII encoded text to a Unicode enabled text.

Details::

CRBLP converter is a system which can convert Bangla ASCII encoded text to Unicode. Since computer store data as number, so it is conflicting to use ASCII/ANSI code for Bangla text because same code pages uses by other languages. Unicode provides unique number for every character without concerning platform, program and language [Ref].

Since several million of Bangla documents has been written in ASCII encoded scripting system so automatic solution is the only way to transform the text into Unicode. Different font’s uses different coding system also same font uses different coding system in different version which is significant difficulty in converting ASCII to Unicode. Here our attempt focused on Sutonny MJ font developed by Bijoy version 2000, Bangsee Alpona, Prothoma, Alo developed by Prothom-Alo. In different version of Bijoy font different coding system are used. The number of one character is different in different version.The project team working to support other fonts and all type of documents.

Team::

Past Team:

  • Fahim Tawfique Chowdhury [email] [website]
  • Md. Zahurul Islam

Contributor:

  • Dewan Shahriar Hossain Pavel

Status:: CRBLPConverter Released Version 1.0 1.1

Timeline:: 2007 - 2008