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| Original author(s) | Mehdi Hasan Khan | ||||||
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| Developer(s) | OmicronLab | ||||||
| Initial release | 26 March 2003 | ||||||
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| Repository | Omicronlab | ||||||
| Written in | C++, Delphi, JavaScript, Objective-C , Visual Basic (Historical), Go (Experimental) (Keyboard), Java, Python, JavaScript (Phonetic layout implementation) | ||||||
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| Available in | English | ||||||
| Type | Keyboard Software, Input method | ||||||
| License | Open Source, Mozilla Public License 1.1 | ||||||
| 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, Linux, MacOS, and several other software additionally adapted its phonetic layout for Android and iOS operating system. It is the first free Unicode and ANSI compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows. It was published on 26 March 2003.
Avro Keyboard has support for fixed keyboard layout and 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 ANSI converter, ANSI to Unicode converter and a set of Bengali Unicode and ANSI fonts. This software is provided in a Standard Installer Edition and Portable Edition for Windows.