![]() You use the F12 keyboard shortcut to switch between English and the Indic language without having to turn off the Google IME tool. You may also use the onscreen virtual keyboard to type complex words that cannot be formed using the Roman keyboard. Once you have changed the input keyboard to Google, open any Windows application (say notepad) and start typing a word just the way it sounds in your language using English letters. ![]() To enable the Google Keyboard, you need to go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Keyboard and Languages and change the keyboard to “Google Input” (see screenshot). Other than offline access, the other advantage offered by this Google Transliteration tool is that it has its own “memory.” For example, if the spelling of an Indic word has multiple versions, the tool will automatically remember the spelling you selected before and will offer it as a first choice the next time you type the same combination of Roman characters. The tool also works with the Arabic language. Well, not anymore because Google has just released a free transliteration utility for Windows that can work offline as well.Ĭalled Google Transliteration IME, you may install this tool on any XP/Vista or Windows 7 computer to write text in most Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Telugu and Urdu. The only downside is that you need a live internet connection for transliteration to work in real-time. and then there are bookmarklets that you may use to type text in Indian languages on any non-Google website. Google has long offered Indic transliteration tools in products like Gmail, Blogger, Orkut, etc. Joomla 1.5.3 and 2.5.0 Malayalam Language Packs (Site) released.Transliteration is an interesting technology that helps people compose documents, emails or even chat in Indian languages (including Arabic) using the English (Roman) keyboard. ![]() Rename the file en-GB……….ini to ml-IN……….ini and save in UTF-08 format. Replace words after “=” sign with the translated content. Just open the language folder in Joomla root folder and copy the language file of the particular extension, copy the content and paste to Google indic transliteration page. ![]() If you want to get the translation of any other modules or components you can do the same by your self. Here I’ve translated only the core language files. Your valuable successions and good translations are always welcome. “Home” the Malayalam translation is “veedu” or “Gruham”, which is not looking nice for web. I used many English words as it is in Malayalam aslo for e.g. In administrative back end translate your site content to Malayalam with the help of Google indic transliteration site or any other similar options. Download the Joomla Malayalam language pack and install to the site. With the help of popular component Joom!fish, it is very easy to make multi- lingual web sites. I used Google indic transliteration to translate the Joomla core language files to Malayalam. I am not claiming that this pack is a perfect one. I don’t know till date no one tried for this. Other Indian language packs for Joomla 1.5 is readily available but for Malayalam there is no language pack. Creating a language pack for Joomla 1.5 is not a difficult task. Presenting the Joomla 1.5 Malayalam language pack (Malayalam is my mother tongue). I wish to start a post with some contribution to Joomla community. The Google Input Tools extension provides virtual keyboards for over 90 languages, full IMEs or direct transliteration for over 30 different scripts, and handwriting input for over 40. What you type in Roman script is converted in Malayalam script. A transliteration doesn't tell you the meaning of the words but it helps you pronounce them. On the other hand, transliteration software works on phonetics. This is my first post on Joomla in this blog. Some of the popular translation tool are Google Translator, Bing Translatoror use our own Malayalam Translationfor FREE.
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