Indian audience are booming and making their mark well on the worldwide applications and appliances. The South Asian market does have a relative(read, Major) share in the financial sector and this is an unargumented opinion in the minds of every entrepreneur who is willing to capture the markets. So, if Indian audience are pleased of anything, they will make the product a Hit, absolutely.
Now, with this idea in place, we have observed so many changes done by many of the IT majors like Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Novell and many more to adapt themselves to the Indian audience. We get Microsoft Office in Indian languages to support the local people, like wise, now Google has stepped in and has brought the support of Indian Languages in multiple features of their services like Gmail, Orkut, iGoogle, Blogger and Google India Labs. As of now, in order to send mails in the local languages Indians used services like Quillpad(awesome site), లేఖిని (Lekhini) widely. The service offered by Quillpad is totally rocking and we absolutely loved using it. If you are an Indian reading this, you need to go there and check it out. And Lekhini is a wonderful Telugu rendering engine using which you can type away in Telugu and just copy the Telugu text and paste it in your Gmail compose box.
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With Gmail expanding its furore, it was never too late to move into this arena by providing the facility to type in Indian languages directly in the Gmail Compose Box itself. Gmail has done that now. If you are residing in India, then by default you have this option in your toolbar where you can choose among the 5 different Indian languages, namely Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
If you not residing in India, but wish to make use of this feature, then just hit the “Languages” in the Settings section to enable this. Now go and type the mails off to your family and friends.
While I appreciate the technique of typing in English to write in an Indian language, think of the vast majority of the people of India who don’t know English. Why does English always get a front seat? Why can’t we type using the Indian language keyboards. We have been doing that for years. There are perfectly good Indian language keyboards and typing in these is just a matter of habit. Do you see a Russian typing in Russian using the Russian phonetic keyboard. That is for Non-Russians.
By pampering the English users to type their mother-tongues in English we are doing more harm than good.
Moreover how is the user to judge that the word he has typed is correct since a whole slew of suggestions pop up, some of them totally inaccurate. You are putting a dangerous weapon in the hands of people little knowledgeable with the language who will produce totally inaccurate data.
Do No Evil is Google’s motto. Please stop this harmful practice and spread the use of Indian languages by other more purposeful means
Hurray!
I am more than thrilled to use this facility of writing a mail in kannada .
Thanks to the g mail team ,in providing this innovative facility, from 1.04.09 .You deserve a pat for the support.
JAI HIND AND JAI KARNATAKA
Krishnamurthy
That’s looks like great. In today’s world, governed by the Internet, everybody wants to build a website, If you’re looking serious to the web design then HTML is a must.
There are free services that allow you to check and fix the validity of your html codes.
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