Avro Keyboard
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 Avro Keyboard 5.5.0 Splash Screen | |
| Original author(s) | Mehdi Hasan Khan, Rifat Nabi |
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| Developer(s) | OmicronLab |
| Initial release | 26 March 2003 |
| Stable release |
5.5.0
/ 21 February 2014 |
| Written in | C++, Delphi |
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| Available in | English |
| Type | Keyboard Software |
| License | Open Source, Mozilla Public License |
| Website | www.omicronlab.com |
Avro Keyboard (Bengali: অভ্র কিবোর্ড) is a free and open source graphical keyboard software developed by OmicronLab for the Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu and as well as other flavours of Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS operating system. It is the first free Unicode and ANSI compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows that was published on 26 March, 2003.
Avro Keyboard has support for fixed keyboard layout and its own phonetic layout named "Avro Phonetic" that allows typing Bengali through romanized transliteration. Avro Keyboard comes with many additional features; auto correction, spell checker, a Font Fixer tool to set default Bengali font, a Keyboard Layout Editor, Unicode to Bijoy converter, and a set of Bengali Unicode fonts. This software is provided in a Standard Installer edition and Portable edition for Windows.