Usually we used to type mail in English only. We will be using the mail services for all our friends,family and other proposes. However, there was one limitation that family members and friends who prefer to communicate in their mother tongue (language) did not have an easy way to type and send email in their language of choice. Now Gmail has announced a new feature that makes us easy to type email in Indian languages.
When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character(Hindi), as the image displayed below. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the "Settings" Tab and then enable this option in the "Language" section.
Images:Official Gmail Blog..
When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent. For example, if a Hindi speaker types "namaste" then gmail will transliterate to Hindi automatically after you give a space. Gmail currently support five Indian languages --
Hindi,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Kannada and
Malayalam..
You can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon.
Images:Official Gmail Blog
This feature was built using Google's transliteration technology, which is also available on Google India Labs, Orkut, Blogger and iGoogle. I hope you users find this feature useful to communicate with those of your friends and family who prefer to write in their native language, and in the near future it will be made available soon to businesses and schools using Google Apps.
Now start replying emails to all in native languages..
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