Kathajagat, a compilation of Telugu stories

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Veeven

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.

Kathajagat Website’s Homepage
Kathajagath’s Homepage
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Lohit, an open source Telugu font

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Veeven

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:

Lihit Telugu font sample

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Microblogging sites in Telugu

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Veeven

Few microblogging sites in Telugu that I know:

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Andhra Jyothy’s website now in Unicode!

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Veeven

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.

The home page of Andhra Jyothy Website

Overall, the site is good. But, they could have done better, at least technically. Here are my (nit)picks:
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Random Links

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Veeven
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Some links for Software Developers

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Veeven

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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Firefox one billion downloads site in Telugu

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Veeven

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 (onebillionplusyou.com) site in Telugu
One Billion + You site in Telugu (Click on the image for bigger view.)

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Setting your preffered language in a web browser

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Veeven

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.

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Random bits 2009-06-19

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Veeven

Some random bits about what is happening on the web about Telugu:

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Searching the Web in Telugu

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Veeven

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:

Telugu search results for Ubuntu in Google

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