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)
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@mayooresan says
Gmail allows you to type in Tamil http://tinyurl.com/dlcgcn
Suppan says
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
Mayooresan says
probably you must change the encoding to UTF-8. Only Unicode database can store Tamil strings correctly 🙂
ravi says
கூகுள் தமிழ் எழுதி பயன்படுத்தாதீர்!
Mayooresan says
நிச்சயாமாக ரவி. நான் பயன்படுத்துவதில்லை.!!
nerosha says
hi
type in tamil pls
vijay says
type in tamil pls
padma says
hi
i want to type in tamil in gmail.com but i dont have that option pls help me
Mayooresan says
@padma
follow the steps mentioned above.