How do I add Bengali support?

Question

How to type Bengali using Ubuntu 12.04. I had installed IBus but unable to find the list of languages from drop down list when I try to add Bengali through input method.

Answer 1

For Bengali you can use avro phonetic.

Method 1

Using ibus as input method, you can try with avro m17n package.It works like charm. You can download from here . While installing you might get packaging warning. Ignore that.

• Download the latest dev file, install it.(Read the instruction in README and Install.txt)
• Install ibus-m17n from software center.
• Switch input method to ibus and configure ibus like this. You can also install hindi from here. (I never tried)
• Log out and login. Use ctrl + space to switch input methods. To change keyboard shortcut, use General tab of the shown picture.

Add ibus in start up

Courtesy - http://askubuntu.com/a/135566/35775

• Open startup applications from the power cog
  
• Add ibus-daemon
  
  

Method 2

Traditionally avro is instructed to setup with scim input method. But it doesn't work well in latest ubuntu version (>= 11.10). A ppa package is available (tutorial here) also or can compile for source.