Lohit, an open source Telugu font
Lohit Telugu is an open source Telugu font primarily found in Linux distributions. It is Unicode compatible. It looks great. Here is a sample of this font:
Microblogging sites in Telugu
Few microblogging sites in Telugu that I know:
Any more?
Andhra Jyothy’s website now in Unicode!
Andhra Jyothy, a popular Telugu daily, recently relaunched its website in Unicode. That’s a good news. With this launch, Andhra Jyothy joined Surya and Prajasakti, other Telugu dailies that already have their websites in Unicode.
Overall, the site is good. But, they could have done better, at least technically. Here are my (nit)picks:
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Random Links
- New (Unicode) Telugu site: MeeMaata.com.
Some links for Software Developers
If you are an application or web developer and wanting to get into using Telugu (or any other non-English language) in your applications, the following links would help you understand the basics of how natural languages work on computers and web:
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Firefox one billion downloads site in Telugu
Mozilla Firefox recently reached one billion downloads. To celebrate and promote it, Mozilla community has built a website called One Billion + You.
This site is also available in Telugu. You can see the site in Telugu if you have set Telugu as preferred language in your browser. Or, you can select Telugu from Other Languages drop down at the bottom of the page in that website.
One Billion + You site in Telugu (Click on the image for bigger view.)
Setting your preffered language in a web browser
Generally, your web browser—while requesting a web page from a website—asks for pages in your preferred language(s). Some websites serve their pages in the preferred language of the user. So, if you set your preferred language to Telugu, websites will serve you content in Telugu, if available.
Your web browser comes with a default choice of languages. If you download a web browser in your language, this setting might be right. Else, if you use English web browser, you can set ‘Telugu’ as preferred language in your browser.
Random bits 2009-06-19
Some random bits about what is happening on the web about Telugu:
- TED talks are now available in Telugu. We can participate in translating the talks into our native languave via TED Open Translation Project.
- You can also find some videos with Telugu subtitles in dotSUB. Not all of them are translated 100%. But, you can help out.
- TeluguNow.com, a new website in (Unicode) Telugu
- Here is yet another way to type in Telugu: Transliteration Bookmarklet.
Searching the Web in Telugu
Telugu content on the web is growing in many ways: blogs, micro blogs, webzines, forums, portals are popping up. With the growing content, there is also a growing (though at a lower rate) trend of searching in Telugu.
All most all search engines today can (and do) index content in Unicode. So, if one knows typing in Telugu, one can enter a keyword in any search engine and get results in Telugu. Here is a screen shot of Google search for Telugu keywords:
