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Bangladesh Standard

SPECIFICATION FOR

MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYPAD

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Bangladesh StandardSPECIFICATION FOR

MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYI'AI)

Committee on Standardization of Bangla fbr use in ICI'

CHAIRMAN

1. Executive Director

NIEJVIBER

Director Cieneral or2. (An experienced representative from his

organization)

3. .Ioint Secretary (Deveioprnent)

Head of the Deparlment of CSE

5. Professor Monsur Musa

6. ltepresentative

7. Representative

8. Representative

9. I{cpresentative

I 0. Representativc

11. Representative

12. Representative

13. Mr.SMKamal

14. Deputy l)irector (Systems)

MEMBER SECRETARY

i5. Senior Systems Analyst

REPRESE,NTING

Bangladesh Computer Clouncil

Bangla Acadcml,

Ministry of Science and I(l l'

Bangiadesh [-ini versitl, o{- I..r.rgi ncerin g a niiTechnology

Institute of Modern I-anguage. Itniversity of Dhaka

Center for Research on Bangla LanguageProcessing. BRAC [Jnivers i tr-

Bangladesh Standards and'[esting Institutior-r

Bangladesh Clomputer Samity ( ilcS)

Banglaclesh Associerti<irr o1- Solin,are & inlirrnrrtioirServices (llAS IS)

Association of'Mobilc 'l'clcconr Opcratol inBangladesh (AM l-OI))

Bangladesh Open Source Nctu'orl( (llDOSN)

Internet Service Provider Association o1-

Bangladesh (ISPAB)

Former Country Manager o{'lllM, Bangladesh anclF-ormer Managing Director ol'BITXIMCO Group

Bangladesh Computer CounciI

Bangladesh Cornpr-rtcr' ('oLr nc i I

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Bangladesh StandardSPECTFICATIOI\ FOR

MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYPAT)

O. FOREWORD

0.1 l'his Bangladesh Standard was adopted by the Bar-rgladcsh stanclarcls arrcl .lcsting

Institution on 15-02-2011 after the recommendation by the Comrnittee on stanclarcli;z-ntiorr

ol' Bangla for use in ICT and had been approved by the Electrical and l:lectronicsDivisional Committee. The Committee on standardization of Bangia fbr r-rsc in IC'I ol'Ministry of Science and Inforrnation & Communication Technologl,' fornrr:latccl tlrcstandard for Mobile Phone Bangla Keypad with technical assistzrncc of'Acc,css to

Information (A2I) programme of Prirne Minister's Office.

0.2Mobile telecom sector has shown a rapid growth since 1997.h't recent tinrcs- rnobilcpenetration in the country has exceeded all expectations with ovcr 6,5.5 nrillionsubscribers as of October 2010. Recent studies on telecom se.ctor o1' []unglaclc-sh

suggested that the number of mobile phone subscriber mav cross i 00 nrillion br' ]01 l.

0.3 The fast spreading mobile network have made mobile phoncs thc most polrurlar rrcans fbrcommunication for the mass people in the country. As a result, mobile nctw'ork has

become the primary choice for service deiivery. Already. the Government made anumber of mobile based services available such as Putt.ll for sugarcanc l.arnrers.

admission procedure for educational institutes, resuh publishing of dif{'erentexaminations, railway ticket reservation etc. However. it is recognised that fbr optimltmuse of this platform, the language of the mobile phones should be localised. In view ofthat, the standard for mobile phone Bangla Keypad is approved by Bangladesh Standardsand Testing Institution (BSTI).

0.4 This standard incorporates Bangla alphabets, numbers. signs and syrnbols in a mobilephone in a scientific manner to faciiitate use of Bangla in all ICT applications in mobilephones.

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116-A, TEJGAON INDUSTRIAL AREA, DHAKA-1208

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I. SCOPE

i.1 The standard defines layouts for input of Ilar-rgla characters. sigrrs- svtrbols aurl crtl'retrcY

marks using industry standard 3 X 4 Mobile Keypad'

1.2 l-his standarcl specifies Bangla Characters intended lor the definitiorl and irrrplcmcntation

of standards for localization of IC'f.

2. NUMBER OF KEYS

This standard defines a layout with 12 keys (3 X 4 Keypad)'

3. I,AYOUTS

'fhe layout for Bangla keypad is illustrated below:

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4. INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO TYPII USING'I'I{E BAN(;I,A KI,,YPAI) ARRANCT'MIiNl-

Type the Bangla by pressing the 0-9, Hash (#) or asterisk (*) keys as shown in the chart

above.

Consonants

The consonant are accessed using the 4-0 keys in alphabetical order as {ollows:qqIQfrUGqrodeOs ci rt q v D p sT <t $ B 5 v D ot g at r { ;l E F < g :r EI < f, xI { lT q v 9 a" s

(as per tlte Bangla Kel,pad cltart)

Transformation of the letters depend on the preceding charactcr- thc nuttrl-rer liev is to bc

pressed for a character.

Vowels

Independent vowels can be accesscd using the 2 or 3 kcy.

After a consonant the matra (dependent vowels) can be accessed using the 2 or 3 kci,'.

For matra characters first type the consonant until the required character is displa-vcd.

The matra character are displayed in the chart using the syrnbol O.

Conjunct Characters

Press * before a value to type recluired character.

Alternate: Select the desired character then llasanta and se iect the desirccl charactct'.

Numeric

Prcss 0 for space. For numerical kcys prcss 0-9 kc1's Lurtil thcr tlcsircd nLLntr:ric is

displayed.

Special characters

Special characters are accessed by repeated pressing until the character is displayed.

'l'o type RAPHALA press the consonant and then select RAPHALA (( ).

Alternate: Type the consonant then * or I{ASANTA ( . ) and then s

To type JAPHALA press the consonant and then select JAPI{AI-;\ ( i ).

Alternate: Type the consonant then * or HASAN'IA ( . ) and then q

'|ype the desired character and thcn select REPf{ (prcssing 1 tlirce tirrcs)