GNU Aspell Bengali Word List Package
    Copyright © 2002 Dr Abhijit Das
    Copyright © 2002 Taneem Ahmed <taneem@eyetap.org>
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

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    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Source URL: http://www.bengalinux.org/downloads 
            http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43331             

How to Install:

You must have Aspell installed. If Aspell is installed and aspell and 
word-list-compress are all in the path first do a:

  ./configure

Which should output something like:

  Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
  Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

if it did not something likely went wrong.

After that build the package with:
  make
and then install it with
  make install

If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
variables, ASPELL and/or WORD_LIST_COMPRESS need to be set to the
commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
line using the following syntax
  ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR.

To clean up after the build:
  make clean

To uninstall the files:
  make uninstall


How to use:

After the word lists are installed you can use the main one (bn) by
setting the LANG environmental variable to bn or running Aspell
with --lang=bn. However, Aspell will expect your text document to be
in is13194-bn encoding. Unfortunately there are not enough support for this
encoding, however, Aspell is designed to work with only 8Bit encoding and
this is the only 8 bit encoding for Bengali compatible with Unicode. If you
have an UTF-8 encoded text file, you can use the gui program bspeller. It
can be found at:
  http://www.bengalinux.org/downloads
or,
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43331


Contact:

If you have any problem with installing, using the word lists, or want to add 
new words to the word list please send an email to dictionary@bengalinux.org.

Creadit:

Needless to say with out Dr. Das's world list we wouldn't have this Bengali
word list for Aspell. My deepest appreciation for his hard work.

Thanks to Kaushik for all his help, and also for infecting our head with the
idea of a Bengali spell checker.

Also special thanks to Kevin Atkinson from Aspell project for all his help.