Microsoft Word 2007 shows Telugu as boxes, especially when you paste Telugu text from elsewhere into Word. Here is how to fix: change the settings of Word so Telugu is rendered correctly:
Recently started, Chitra Maalika is a new Telugu webzine about Telugu movies. It is intented to reflect the opinion of common audience. Here is a screen shot of Chitra Maalika’s home page.
Universal Subtitles is a service that enables everyone to create subtitles for almost any video on the web. It also allows translations of the subtitles. It is simple and easy.
I’ve just created Telugu translations for their introduction video. I embedded it here for you:
There are some online Telugu dictionaries available. There are few can be downloaded for offline use. This post lists some of them.
Kathajagat is a web site that aims to compile short stories from contemporary Telugu writers. Kathajagat now has more than 115 Telugu stories. Eminent writers like Ravuri Bharadwaja, Munipalle Raju, Avasarala Ramakrishna Rao, Bharago, Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy, Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah are few among the contributors of this project.
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:
Few microblogging sites in Telugu that I know:
Any more?
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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