Bijoy Bangla, the first Bangla language typing software and keyboard, would complete its silver jubilee, 25 years since its initiation, today. The Bangla software and keyboard company started it ...

Bijoy was an ASCII based Bangla input software and required a licence to use on computers. Later, it introduced some free packs and included Unicode fonts in 2005.

Bijoy is considered the first successful commercial Bangla keyboard layout and Jabbar is credited with designing it in the late 1980s.

Ananda Computers, founded by Jabbar, released Bijoy Bangla keyboard on Dec 16, 1988. It later became a widely used Bangla writing software.

A smartphone display shows the Bangla-language Bijoy keyboard -- the product at the center of a political controversy. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu) ...