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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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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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.)
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.
Some random bits about what is happening on the web about 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:
MCX Stock Exchange (MCX SX) launches their website in Telugu language also.
Telugu Ratna (teluguratna.com) is a new generation, social, web 2.0 site for Telugu people by Telugu people in Telugu language. The membership and other services of the site are free.
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