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Bangladesh Standard

SPECIFICATION FOR
MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYPAD

BANGLADESH STANDARDS AND TESTING INSI-I]'TJT'ION

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BANGLADESH

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Bangladesh Standard
SPECIFICATION FOR
MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYI'AI)
Committee on Standardization of Bangla fbr use in ICI'

CHAIRMAN REPRESE,NTING

1. Executive Director Bangladesh Computer Clouncil

NIEJVIBER

Director Cieneral or
2. (An experienced representative from his Bangla Acadcml,
organization)

3. .Ioint Secretary (Deveioprnent) Ministry of Science and I(l l'

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

Head of the Deparlment of CSE
Technology

5. Professor Monsur Musa Institute of Modern I-anguage. Itniversity of Dhaka

Center for Research on Bangla Language

6. ltepresentative
Processing. BRAC [Jnivers i tr-

7. Representative Bangladesh Standards and'[esting Institutior-r

8. Representative Bangladesh Clomputer Samity ( ilcS)

Banglaclesh Associerti<irr Solin,are & inlirrnrrtioir

9. I{cpresentative
Services (llAS IS)
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Association of'Mobilc 'l'clcconr Opcratol in

I 0. Representativc
Bangladesh (AM l-OI))

11. Representative Bangladesh Open Source Nctu'orl( (llDOSN)

Internet Service Provider Association

12. Representative
o1-
Bangladesh (ISPAB)

Former Country Manager o{'lllM, Bangladesh ancl

13. Mr.SMKamal
F-ormer Managing Director ol'BITXIMCO Group

14. Deputy l)irector (Systems) Bangladesh Computer CounciI

MEMBER SECRETARY

i5. Senior Systems Analyst Bangladesh Cornpr-rtcr' ('oLr nc i I

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Bangladesh Standard
SPECTFICATIOI\ FOR
MOBILE PHONE BANGLA KEYPAT)
O. FOREWORD
.lcsting
0.1 l'his Bangladesh Standard was adopted by the Bar-rgladcsh stanclarcls arrcl
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:lectronics
Divisional Committee. The Committee on standardization of Bangia fbr r-rsc in IC'I ol'
Ministry of Science and Inforrnation & Communication Technologl,' fornrr:latccl tlrc
standard 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- rnobilc
penetration in the country has exceeded all expectations with ovcr 6,5.5 nrillion
subscribers 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 fbr
communication 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 a
number of mobile based services available such as Putt.ll for sugarcanc l.arnrers.
admission procedure for educational institutes, resuh publishing of dif{'erent
examinations, railway ticket reservation etc. However. it is recognised that fbr optimltm
use of this platform, the language of the mobile phones should be localised. In view of
that, the standard for mobile phone Bangla Keypad is approved by Bangladesh Standards
and Testing Institution (BSTI).

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

BANGLADESH STANDARDS AND TESTING INSTITUTION

(MAAN BHABAN)
116-A, TEJGAON INDUSTRIAL AREA, DHAKA-1208
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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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Tire Bangla keypad chart is illr-rstrated 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:
qqIQfrUGqrodeO
s 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)