Gmail allows you to type in Tamil

April 1, 2009 by Mayooresan
Filed under: Google, India, Internet 

Long time back Google has introduced transliteration (NOT translation) for five indian languages including Tamil and Hindi. Later they integrated this feature to many of their products such as Blogger, Orkut, iGoogle etc.

Advantage of transliteration is you don’t have to learn any keyboard layout. If you type “namaste” transliterate service will transliterate this to “नमस्ते.” Similarly, “vanakkam” in Tamil will become “வணக்கம்.”

Though it’s a wonderful feature if you continue to use this you’ll get addicted to this service and will not be able to continue with normal typing layout. Therefore use is when there is no other way to type in Tamil.

Now Google has integrated Transliteration in Gmail too. It’s so good that we can directly type in Tamil, especially when we are in Net café or office.

To enable this feature go to settings. (See the image below)
tamil-input-in-gmail

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9 Comments on Gmail allows you to type in Tamil

  1. @mayooresan on Wed, 1st Apr 2009 4:16 am
    Tweetback!

    2. Gmail allows you to type in Tamil http://tinyurl.com/dlcgcn

  2. Suppan on Fri, 3rd Apr 2009 6:33 am

    3. Me and my friend have started this website recently.

    I tried to type in tamil. When I make a post in the admin area I can type see tamil letters displayed. But when I save everything changes back to question mark like below.

    ?????? ?????

    I really want to blog in tamil. But Do not want Tamil Themes.

    Can you help me please :)

    Good example is You have mentioned Vanakkam.

    The same way I want Tamil to be in my blog..

    Suppan

  3. Mayooresan on Fri, 3rd Apr 2009 8:05 pm

    4. probably you must change the encoding to UTF-8. Only Unicode database can store Tamil strings correctly :)

  4. ravi on Fri, 10th Apr 2009 7:23 am


    5. கூகுள் தமிழ் எழுதி பயன்படுத்தாதீர்!

  5. Mayooresan on Fri, 10th Apr 2009 8:10 pm

    6. நிச்சயாமாக ரவி. நான் பயன்படுத்துவதில்லை.!!

  6. nerosha on Sat, 18th Jul 2009 9:46 pm

    7. hi
    type in tamil pls

  7. vijay on Thu, 6th Aug 2009 8:42 pm

    8. type in tamil pls

  8. padma on Sat, 10th Apr 2010 10:30 am

    9. hi
    i want to type in tamil in gmail.com but i dont have that option pls help me

  9. Mayooresan on Sun, 11th Apr 2010 4:06 pm

    10. @padma
    follow the steps mentioned above.

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