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. ============================ 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 =============================== 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 =========== 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 ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/banglapenguin@;banglapenguin.org
