Upgrading to WordPress 2.5
Today I upgraded my wordpress blogs to version 2.5 from 2.3.3. First I upgraded my English blog and checked the blog, no probs, so I decided to upgrade my Tamil blog as well.
Once the upgrading of Tamil blog is done I checked the home page, there is a warning error message.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mayuonli/public_html/blog/wp-includes/classes.php on line 92
Google Docs in Indian Languages (Including Tamil)
Google Docs now available in Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu. I’m so glad Google has given its concern over Indian languages especially beyond Hindi.
To activate its new interface, sign in to Google Docs, click ‘Settings’, and select the interface language you prefer.
I checked the built in Tamil spell checker of the Google Docs. It’s hopeless; don’t rely on that spell checker!
As I suspected earlier, it seems soon we can expect more products from google in Tamil and other Indian languages.
Enable & Write in Sinhala Unicode
There are many of my friends who study with me in university are happy with English and they don’t wanna read or write in Sinhala, over the internet. They keep on asking “how did you type in Tamil machang?”, but they’ll never make an attempt to write in Sinhala over the net.
Soon lot of people, who don’t know English will also come to computer especially for internet. In that time they should have a proper support or a proper base in their own language. Comparatively in Tamil, there are many communities working actively to accomplish these kinda tasks.
In Sinhala, I hardly see a community that work with a will. I think at least now you guys should start to work on this matter. First of all, you should be able to read and write in your own language.
In Vista, it has a built-in support for Sinhala but in Win XP you need to install an extension pack. . Don’t ignore it. Follow the link and activate the Sinhala Unicode in your computer.
http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html
Good luck
On Screen Keyboard for Tamil and Sinhala from Google
How many of you know that even if you don’t know the keyboard layout for Tamil or Sinhalese still you can type in Sinhalese or Tamil. Google has developed an on-screen keyboard where you can click and type.
Using this gadget you can search the internet on Google. Amazing isn’t it. Then why are you waiting?? Go and grab the gadget!
Tamil interface for WordPress
I have happy news to all our Tamil bloggers. Today WordPress has given Tamil interface for its site.
Last 5 days nearly 20 of our translators translated nearly 3000 strings as volunteers. It
Blogger SUCKS! WP Rocks!!
For last six months, I was using blogger and finally found that it sucks! As the result, I have moved to new domain (http://eblog.mayuonline.com) and installed Wordpress.
Now only I realized the potential of the Wordpress. We have hell lot of control over wordpress, but not over blogger. We have to use what blogger has given to us. If you take themes.. Whoa!! Whoa!! Search in google and see how many beautiful themes you can find for wordpress.!!
There are some linespacing problem occures in Wordpress when we use Tamil script and Firefox together, but it can also be solved by doing some edits in CSS. Actually it’s not the problem of Wordpress but the problem of Microsoft Windows. (Again windows SUCKS!)
If you are still struggling with blogger.. It’s time for you to switch to wordpress!!!
If you are wondering how to import your old blogger post to new wordpress site, then do a googling and you’ll get an answer.. Actually you have to open an account in wordpress.com and then you can import your blogger post to your wordpress.com site.
If you have installed and using wordpress in your own domain, then download the posts from wordpress.com and upload it to your new domain!!!
Happy blogging!
With love,
Mayu.
