That’s a good news! See the site in your browser: Andhra Bank website in Telugu. Here is a screen shot (Click on the image to view it in the bigger size):
I get many hits to this blog in the form searches about Telugu keyboard layout. It seems that my earlier posts offering a way to type Unicode Telugu using apple and modular keyboard layouts are attracting many hits. I just want to note here that those two layouts are intended only for people who already knew those layouts (on Anu Script Manager or other proprietary and traditional Telugu typing systems) and do not want to learn a new layout when they want to type in Unicode.
If you are new to Telugu typing and want to learn a keyboard layout, you should learn InScript layout. InScript layout is standardized by Government of India for all Indic scripts. Windows XP, Vista, 7 operating systems already come with this keyboard layout. You just need to enable it. InScript layout is also available in Linux and Macintosh operating systems.
Here are the normal and shifted snapshots of Telugu InScript keyboard layout.
Normal:
When Shift key is used:
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Google Translate now supports Telugu (official blog post). And, this service is still in experimental alpha stage. It is working reasonably well for simple and commonly known sentences and phrases. A lot more to be improved for the complex sentences.
Here is a screen shot showing the English to Telugu Translation of this post:
Two upcoming conferences that have something for Telugu, Unicode, Localization:
35th Internationalization & Unicode Conference is happening in Santa Clara, CA, USA on the days of October 17 – 19, 2011. It has interesting tutorials and presentations on topics like internationalization, localization issues, multilingual fonts, etc. You can see more details on the program details page.
2nd World Telugu Writers Conference is happening in Vijayawada, India on the days of August 13 – 15, 2011. Krishna District Telugu Writers Association is conducting this conference. Please see the invite and more details.
Kinige.com is an online e-book store for Telugu books. You can buy Telugu books as e-books or you can just rent them for a month.
Kinige currently has 126 Telugu books and that number is growing steadily. Some of the popular writers are already on Kinige: Tanikella Bharani, Madhubabu, Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy, Kasturi Murali Krishna, Chandra Latha and Vinnakota Ravisankar to name a few. You can also find compilations of Telugu stories by Katha Sahiti. Continue reading
SiliconAndhra (a Telugu literary and cultural organization), in association with Government of Andhra Pradesh, is organizing a one-day symposium in Hyderabad about Telugu computing. This is a brainstorming session to assess and take stock of the current state of affairs in the use of Telugu in Internet and Information Technology.
There are many people and organizations are working in the areas of Telugu computing. It will be helpful to get all the interested parties together and talk about the current status and discuss future direction and find opportunities for collaboration.
Here are the details about the event:
You might already know that iOS4 comes with a Telugu font and supports Telugu out of the box. So, you can view Telugu perfectly in iPhones and iPads that are running iOS4 and above.
Now, let us see what options we have on other mobiles and smartphones like BlackBerry and Nokia E71 E67 etc. The problem is that these phones do not come with a Telugu font pre-installed. Even otherwise, I do not think the browsers in these smartphones are smart enough to render Telugu text yet. When you visit a Telugu website, you see it as below:
However, there is a way to see Unicode Telugu on these smartphones. And, the way is to use Opera Mini with bitmap fonts setting on.
Today, I discovered enduku.com. It is a website that explains in Telugu why, what and how about general things in simple terms.
Popular Telugu webzine Poddu announced a competition of Telugu stories for this Ugadi. If you are (or want to be) a Telugu story writer, send a story to them. You have time up to March 15, 2011. You can find other rules, etc. in the link above.
Lekhini now supports typing Telugu using Inscript keyboard layout. To try it go here: Lekhini Inscirpt.
Lekhini Inscript can be used to learn (or practice) Telugu INSCRIPT keyboard layout. For more details see the post about Inscript Lekhini in my Telugu blog.
By the way, INSCRIPT layout is known as DOE layout in Anu Script Manager.
Let me know your feedback.
When you use Anu Script Manager, the resulting text will not be in Unicode. That means you cannot effectively use that text on the web: (1) Users see it as junk characters unless they have necessary Anu fonts. Not everyone can get Anu fonts as they are not free. (2) Worst part is that Google and other search engines do not understand that your text is in Telugu and cannot show your website in their results for Telugu searches.
The best way is to use Unicode. There are few converters that convert text from Anu to Unicode:
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