It was installed at the Dhaka centre of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, which was later renamed as the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, in the last quarter of 1964. The first computer in what now constitutes Bangladesh was, however, an IBM 1620 mainframe - a general-purpose, stored-program data processing system - that Pakistan received under the Colombo Plan.

This was how it all began in the early 1990s. The presence of poor understanding, or the absence of any understanding at all, of the issues appears to have marked the development of, and marred the efforts for, a code page that could have made Bangla computing universal - across programs on different operating systems - when the issues primarily came up in public discussion, with one group of people, basically technologists, struggling to work out something effective, another group of people, basically traders of technological devices, trying to oppose what the technologists would say in fears of losing their business and, yet, another group of people, basically experts in other areas but hardly attuned to computing, floundering in between, without having the standing to say something resolutely in favour of or against what the two other groups would say. They can also look different depending on the style and genre - or face for that matter. And a glyph, the visible form of a single character, can be variously manifest - in letters that are upright, slanted or emboldened. And, characters, which can in an extreme generalisation be called letters, are visible only when they become manifest in their glyphs. A set of characters, or numbers assigned to characters, in a block or table is what makes a code page that allows the writing of more than one languages using similar scripts on computer. A set of letters is what makes an alphabet, which is used to write a certain language. The draft table of the 1993 Bangladesh efforts of a Bangla code page.ĬHARACTERS to the code page are what letters are to the alphabet.

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