But, as Bangla is my native language and I use it a lot in my online activity including twitter, facebook, forum, etc – it was a must have support for my phone and I had that in my default ROM (S5570DDKC1). Although I had root my phone and install a new font. What problem I faced that, the gingerbread build of the ROM hadn’t support for complex script rendering. Although it was an Asian build, but it was lacking of complex script rendering support. So I couldn’t see Bangla clearly on the Gingerbread. Replacing the DroidSansFallback.ttf font was showing the characters, but rendering was faulty. So I decided to downgrade my Android OS to the Froyo stock ROM. I tried two Gingerbread ROM that time, one is S5570ZSKPB – China build and other one was S5570XXKPK – Russian build.

So, what I did next is – download the official ROM and install with the mighty Odin . But the problem was, it didn’t boot after installing Froyo. After installing, it comes with just a black screen and nothing else, no samsung logo or anything. But Odin can detect it. I was confused, why it doesn’t boot? As the power button and any combination key was not working (including the download mode combination), I thought I bricked my precious phone . But then I found a way, removed the battery, pressing volume down+menu+power and again inserting the battery, the phone comes to download mode again. Then installing gingerbread boots fine, but when I install Froyo, it doesn’t boot.

The problem was, the bootloader of the Gingerbread was updated version than Froyo. So it replaced the Froyo bootloader and when I was installing the Froyo ROM, the Gingerbread bootloader was refusing to boot again. So I had to somehow replace the bootloader with the Froyo bootloader.

ROM without bootloader

You’ll see that, what ROM’s you get in samfirmware is only a single *.tar file. So I had to find a ROM that comes with a bootloader too. Luckily, samfirmware has this one. You’ll see the last part of the ROM page is “Provider Samsung S5570 Firmwares”. Those ROM’s comes with 4 different files. I downloaded the “S5570XWKE3” ROM and found the following files:

1. APBOOT_S5570XWKE3_CL991862_REV02_user_low_true.tar.md5
2. CODE_S5570XWKE3_CL991862_REV02_user_low_true.tar.md5
3. GT-S5570-CSC-ERAKE3.tar.md5
4. MODEM_S5570XXKB2_CL968961_REV02.tar.md5

ROM with bootloader

Installing this ROM with Odin did the trick and my phone was again back to Froyo. As now I’ve the Froyo bootloader, again I installed the Indian ROM S5570DDKC1. And again I got the nice Bangla support

This font rendering part is keeping us away from using the latest build. Android developers should really give us a way to choose what language we want to use, may be with some external application or some another way. I see posts in Google android group, XDA developers forum and other android forums – people are shouting about this issue. But no solve came till now. It’s really depressing, we badly need it

I always wanted to publish this as a PHP Class but never got that chance to do so. After a long time i worked with Bangla date today and finally created a PHP Class to use it anywhere by anyone. Sorry for the late.

Usage:

<?php
include_once 'class.banglaDate.php';
$bn_date = new BanglaDate(time());
$date = $bn_date->get_date();
?>

You will get an array of converted date in Bangla.

A few things needed to know. Bangla date counted or changes after the sun rise. That means, where English date changes at 12′O clock at the night, Bangla date changes at the morning after the sunrise.

Class Constructor:
This class constructor has 2 parameters. The first one in timestamp and the second one is the hour of changing the date. If you want to change the Bangla date like English at 12’0 clock at the night, you should use $bn_date = new BanglaDate(time(), 0). But if you want to change the date at 6′O clock at the morning, use as $bn_date = new BanglaDate(time(), 6). If you don’t pass the second parameter, the default value is 6. Use as you like.

After Creating the class object, you can set another date using set_time() like $bn_date->set_time(time(), 4);

Bangla Date class on PHPClasses.org

ফেসবুকে বাংলা তারিখ

এই অ্যাপ্লিকেশন দিয়ে আপনি আপনার ফেসবুকের প্রোফাইলে আজকের বাংলা তারিখটি দেখাতে পারবেন। অ্যাপ্লিকেশনটি রয়েছে এখানে http://apps.facebook.com/bangladate/

Google offers an automatic transliteration option that converts Roman characters to the characters used in Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. This feature lets you type these languages phonetically in English letters, but they’ll appear in their correct alphabet. Keep in mind that transliteration is different from translation; the sound of the words is converted from one alphabet to the other, not the meaning.

What I did?
I did a integration of Google Transliterate with WordPress & punBB. My plugin allows you to write phonetically with the help of Google Transliteration in the WordPress post editor and also in punBB post box. This will not work in rich text editor mode in wordpress, you need to switch on HTML mode.

How does it work?
The bellow images tells you everything

• You can select your desired language from the list



• After Selecting the language, active the google transliteration option by clicking the text.



• Type the words phonetically. Once you type a space or a punctuation mark, the letters will be converted to corresponding language characters, like this:



• If you need to correct a transliterated word, click the word; you’ll see a menu of alternate spellings, in addition to an option to switch back to the Roman characters you typed. If you type the same word again, it will then be transliterated correctly based on your saved preference.

Download Google Tranliteration for Wordpress (338)
Download Google Tranliteration for punBB (281)

এটি প্রতিদিনের বাংলা তারিখ ফোরামের header এ দেখায়। সামনে পহেলা বৈশাখ আসছে, সে উপলক্ষ্যে এটি রিলিজ দেয়া হল। আসলে এই এক্সটেনশনের আইডিয়াটি ছিল রাজু ভাইয়ের। তিনি আমাকে বলাতে আমি এই এক্সটেনশনটি বানিয়েছি। ধন্যবাদ রাজু ভাইকে।

আপডেট(২৯ এপ্রিল): আজ এর নতুন ভার্সন ১.২ রিলিজ দিলাম। আগের ভার্সনে কিছু বাগ ছিল। যেমনঃ ঐটার সাল নিয়ে একটু ঝামেলা হচ্ছিল। ঠিক মত আপডেট হচ্ছিল না। তাই এর নতুন ভার্সনে এটা ঠিক করে দেয়া হয়েছে।

আরেকটা নতুন ফিচার যুক্ত করা হয়েছে। যেহেতু বাংলা তারিখ গণনা করা হয় সূর্যোদয় থেকে, তাই নতুন ভার্সনে সকাল ৬ টা থেকে তারিখ পরিবর্তিত হবে। অর্থাৎ রাত ১২ টার পরিবর্তে সকাল ৬ টা থেকে তারিখ পরিবর্তিত হবে।