Gmail is the latest addition to the Google's services(Google Search, Orkut, Blogger), which provides transliteration option for Indian Languages. Now you can compose your mails in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam by clicking icon showing an Indian language character in formatting options bar.
To enable this feature,
1.Go to Settings, at the top of gmail window
2.Go to General tab
3.Check the Enable Transliteration checkbox
4.Select the default transliteration language
Problem with Google Transliteration: Google transliteration has some inherent flaws in its coversion of English letters to Indic. What I have observed when typing Kannada using Google transliteration is that, there is inconsistent transliteration of vowels and consonants of Indian languages written in English script. Following are the examples to illustrate the problem in Google transliteration. I have compared this with the transliteration provided by Baraha software.
1.Google - nenapidi - ನೆನಪಿಡಿ
Baraha - nenapidi - ನೆನಪಿಡಿ
Here 'i' is interpreted as 'ಇ' by Google transliteration
But in another case,
Google - ramaNiya - ರಮಣೀಯ
Baraha - ramaNiya - ರಮಣಿಯ
Here 'i' is interpreted as 'ಈ' by Google transliteration
But in both cases, Baraha interprets 'i' as 'ಇ'
2.Google - kaDDaaya - ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ
Baraha - kaDDaaya - ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ
Here 'D' is interpreted as 'ಡ' by Google transliteration
But in other situation,
Google - ODu - ಓದು
Baraha - ODu - ಓಡು
Here 'D' is interpreted as 'ದ' by Google transliteration
But in both cases, Baraha interprets 'D' as 'ಡ'
Note that in Google transliteration you can change to the required vowel/consonant when you do a backspace on the word just transliterated. This time google provides pop down list of optional transliterated words to choose from. But doing this most of the time can be a tedious task and sometimes, you dont get the word you are looking for in the pop down list. On the positive note, one can notice that google transliteration is trying to provide a transliterated word, which is most commonly used or which is in the dictionary of that language. This is similar to the technique which is commonly used in typing messages in mobile phones(known as the iTap or T9 word prediction technology). But unlike English, in case of Indian languages what you speak is what you write. There is no difference between the way you write and pronounce as in English. So, I still prefer baraha to type in Kannada and then paste the unicode text in the applications, I am using.
Google, are you listening?
Raveesh
To enable this feature,1.Go to Settings, at the top of gmail window
2.Go to General tab
3.Check the Enable Transliteration checkbox
4.Select the default transliteration language

Problem with Google Transliteration: Google transliteration has some inherent flaws in its coversion of English letters to Indic. What I have observed when typing Kannada using Google transliteration is that, there is inconsistent transliteration of vowels and consonants of Indian languages written in English script. Following are the examples to illustrate the problem in Google transliteration. I have compared this with the transliteration provided by Baraha software.
1.Google - nenapidi - ನೆನಪಿಡಿ
Baraha - nenapidi - ನೆನಪಿಡಿ
Here 'i' is interpreted as 'ಇ' by Google transliteration
But in another case,
Google - ramaNiya - ರಮಣೀಯ
Baraha - ramaNiya - ರಮಣಿಯ
Here 'i' is interpreted as 'ಈ' by Google transliteration
But in both cases, Baraha interprets 'i' as 'ಇ'
2.Google - kaDDaaya - ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ
Baraha - kaDDaaya - ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ
Here 'D' is interpreted as 'ಡ' by Google transliteration
But in other situation,
Google - ODu - ಓದು
Baraha - ODu - ಓಡು
Here 'D' is interpreted as 'ದ' by Google transliteration
But in both cases, Baraha interprets 'D' as 'ಡ'
Note that in Google transliteration you can change to the required vowel/consonant when you do a backspace on the word just transliterated. This time google provides pop down list of optional transliterated words to choose from. But doing this most of the time can be a tedious task and sometimes, you dont get the word you are looking for in the pop down list. On the positive note, one can notice that google transliteration is trying to provide a transliterated word, which is most commonly used or which is in the dictionary of that language. This is similar to the technique which is commonly used in typing messages in mobile phones(known as the iTap or T9 word prediction technology). But unlike English, in case of Indian languages what you speak is what you write. There is no difference between the way you write and pronounce as in English. So, I still prefer baraha to type in Kannada and then paste the unicode text in the applications, I am using.
Google, are you listening?
Raveesh
ನಾಯಕನ ಪಟ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಕುತ್ತು : ಬೆ೦ಗಳೂರು ರಾಯಲ್ ಚ್ಯಾಲೆ೦ಜರ್ಸ್ ನ ಕಳೆದ ಬಾರಿಯ ಕಳಪೆ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನದಿ೦ದ ನಾಯಕ ರಾಹುಲ್ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ್ ತ೦ಡದ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕರಾದ ವಿಜಯ್ ಮಲ್ಯರ ಕೆ೦ಗಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಈ ಬಾರಿ ತ೦ಡದ ನಾಯಕತ್ವವನ್ನು ಇ೦ಗ್ಲೆ೦ಡ್ ನ ಕೆವಿನ್ ಪೀಟರ್ಸನ್ ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ ಎ೦ಬ ಘೋಷಣೆ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಹೊರಬಿದ್ದಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ ಇ೦ಗ್ಲೆ೦ಡ್ ತ೦ಡವನ್ನು ಭಾರತದ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಆಡಿದಾಗ ಸೋಲಿನ ದವಡೆಯಿ೦ದ ಪಾರು ಮಾಡಲಾಗದೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಇ೦ಗ್ಲೆ೦ಡ್ ತ೦ಡದ ಕೋಚ್ ಪೀಟರ್ ಮೂರ್ಸ್ ಅವರೊ೦ದಿಗಿನ ಭಿನ್ನಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳಿ೦ದ ನಾಯಕ ಸ್ಥಾನದಿ೦ದ 
