Pickers allow you to quickly create phrases in a script by clicking on Unicode characters arranged in a way that aids their identification. Pickers are likely to be most useful if you don’t know a script well enough to use the native keyboard. The arrangement of characters also makes it much more useable than a regular character map utility.
The Bengali picker includes all the characters in the Unicode 5.0 Bengali block. Note: There was an important addition to the Bengali block in version 4.1, a single character for khanda ta, that may not yet be supported in fonts, but has been added to this version of the picker.
Consonants are mostly in a typical articulatory arrangement, vowels are aligned with vowel signs, and digits are in keypad order. Hinting is implemented for visually similar glyphs.
A function has also been added to transliterate Bengali text to Latin, though the scheme used is not standard, and may change at short notice. Don’t use it in anger yet.