

The m17n IM engine currently works with IBus inter alia on Linux.

This depends firstly on its author and then if it is offered to m17n then probably on m17n. As of Jul 2012 it not yet a part of the m17n-contrib which allows installation of all m17n contribbed libraries through Linux's software channels and it may be too early to say whether it will be incorporated.

It is also phonetic and has something in common with all Bengali phonetic layouts making the transition smooth for new users. Saon Bengali enables touch typing so if a user can type in English, they won't have to look at the keyboard to type in Saon Bengali. This free and open source IM is Unicode 6.1 compliant in terms of both normalization and number of keystrokes used to input a single character. This is an m17n library which provides the Saon Bengali input method for touch typing in Bengali on Linux systems and the project was registered by its creator, Saoni at on 8 July 2012.
