how can I type bangla bengali fonts in power point (Mavericks system)?

evereddy wrote:

Hi, can you also suggest how I can do conjugations using mac's native Bengali support? I can do that for the Devanagari fonts, e.g, फन्ट, but have not figured out the same for Bengali.

It's essentially the same as Devanagari, you type a special virama character between the letters of the conjunct. It is on the F key in the Bangla Qwerty layout.

Open 'System Preferences > Language & region'.

Click the + below the list on the left. Select Bengali or another supported language, decide if you want to use this as the Primary language - this will change all the system menu's so take care not to pick a language you don't know. 🙂

Open Powerpoint, in the main menu bar near the right hand side you should have a 'flag icon' showing the current language, select the new language from that list & start typing 🙂

I'd also suggest you look at …

'System Preferences > Keyboard, Input sources tab' enable the options to 'Show the input menu in the menu bar' (e.g. the flag)

'System Preferences > Keyboard, Keyboard tab' enable the options to 'Show the keyboard viewer in the menu bar, that will show the keyboard layout if you open it from the input menu (i.e. flag menu).

Good luck.

Hi, can you also suggest how I can do conjugations using mac's native Bengali support? I can do that for the Devanagari fonts, e.g, फन्ट, but have not figured out the same for Bengali.

thanks.

Hi Drew, I seem unable to get Bangla to work since installing OSX Mavericks. I select the Bangla MN font that is supplied, select the language, keyboard etc but the conjuncts don't work - it is not the F key, it is the G key for the Bangla Qwerty layout. Even if I use the F key, or the screen displayed keyboard, or my apple keyboard, or a Bangla ASCI keyboard, it doesn't work. I can read Bangla on websites, I can type some words, but not all and with many problems, into my own documents. I cannot read Bangla in documents provided to me by other organisations (the BBC). In any case, it just doesn't produce the conjuncts and, if I follow the Bangla MN font drop down method and select one of the alternatives offered, it then doesn't display properly in the document (it substitutes another letter) and it doesn't accept further letters in the word or allow me to delete the space in between to join the two parts of the word up. I have tried Unicode, Onkur etc. I have lost all of the Bangla in my existing documents - and I mean all of it. Please, I hope you, or one of the other very helpful people in this community, can help me. I have been trying for more than 2 months to get this to work.

Are you talking about Power Point? If not, what apps exactly are you using to compose and what format docs are you trying to read?

You seem confused regarding the keys. It should definitely be the F key, not the G key, in Apple's Bangla Qwerty.

Could you use the camera icon here to post a screen shot of an example of composing failure in TextEdit, with examples of specific words that don't work?