[Freebangfont-devel] The world's first completely bangla mail

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Ok,
This night, I will be sending out what would be probably the world's
first UTF-8 encoded Bangla mail.
All the recipients of this mail will receive that mail.
Instructions for reading the mail

For Red Hat Linux 8.0 users.
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1. Download and  install Balsa 2.0.3 from balsa.gnome.org
2. Install the AkaashNormal font from 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/Akaash.pkg/0.5.0/Akaash-0.5.0.tar.gz
        OR
Install the likhan font from 
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali
(Just copy the ttf file into $HOME/.fonts/ and run the command fc-cache)
3. Configure Balsa and download the mail
4. See and drool over the Bangla characters :)


For Microsoft Windows(TM) users
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You will be needing Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0
for the thing to work.
Download the AkaashNormal font from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/Akaash.pkg/0.5.0/Akaash-0.5.0.tar.gz
OR the likhan font from http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali
Copy the file with a *.ttf extension into c:\windows\fonts\
And then open the mail in Internet Explorer, and enjoy!!

Other Notes
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Do note that since these mails will look like gibberish to most of the
anti-spam programmes, you may need to turn off any spam filtering
features to let this mail pass through :).

To www.peacefulaction.org coordinators - I will be turning off
spamassasin tonight.(temporarily)

-regards-
Sayamindu