
As of Jul 2012 it not yet a part of the m17n-contrib which allows installation of all m17n contribbed libraries through Linux's software channels and it may be too early to say whether it will be incorporated. It is also phonetic and has something in common with all Bengali phonetic layouts making the transition smooth for new users. Saon Bengali enables touch typing so if a user can type in English, they won't have to look at the keyboard to type in Saon Bengali. This free and open source IM is Unicode 6.1 compliant in terms of both normalization and number of keystrokes used to input a single character. This is an m17n library which provides the Saon ( Bengali: শাওন) Bengali input method for touch typing in Bengali on Linux systems and the project was registered by its creator, Saoni at SourceForge on 8 July 2012. This is the first phonetic input method developed for Mac OS X. Bangla Onkur phonetic allows a user to write Bengali by typing the phonetic formation of the words in English language keyboards.


It facilitates only phonetic typing in Macintosh platform. Raiyan Kabir, was first released on 30 March 2011 as an open-source software. Bangla Onkur īangla Onkur ( Bengali: অঙ্কুর) pronounced onkur, developed by S. Microsoft Bengali transliteration Īlong with other Indic languages, Microsoft has web based and desktop transliteration support for Bengali.

There is a free transliteration web site and software package for Bengali scripts from google. It allows some letters to be typed in multiple ways in order to type using lower case letters only in mobile devices.

Bakkhor (portmanteau of বাংলায় সাক্ষর, meaning Bengali literacy) Developed by Ensel Software and available online.
