Blog in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian!

Blogger has now introduced facility to blog in Arabic Hebrew and Persian! These languages are written from right to left and those who have been using hacks to write in this manner need no longer do so.............


Templates also have added code for right to left direction change. When creating a post in the Post Editor a new bidirectional toolbar is now available.


To change your language settings login to Blogger.com and click on drop down arrow under 'Language' in top right of your Dashboard page. All new blogs created will use this setting.


To change the language for an individual blog login at Blogger.com and click on Settings link on Dashboard. Then go to Formatting subtab and choose Language there.


Classic Templates do NOT support this change. For this you will have to upgrade to Layouts template. This means FTP blogs cannot take advantage of this as they cannot upgrade to Layouts template!


Happy Right-to-Left Blogging!

5 Tips on Hindi Transliteration.

Blogger has now introduced Hindi transliteration : Blogger Buzz: Now you can blog in Hindi which means you can now blog in Hindi! You can now use Hindi to express your thoughts, experiences etc. Here are some tips for blogging in Hindi........


1. Transliteration is NOT translation. Just type the Hindi words as you pronounce them and see them automagically appear in Devanagari. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as:




2. Enable Transliteration by Settings------>Basic------>Scroll down to------> Show Transliteration button for your posts----->Yes------>Save. This will place a new icon in top frame of post editor (Only in Compose Mode) which will transliterate your English characters to Hindi.




3. The transliteration feature is only supported in Internet Explorer versions 6.0 and higher on Windows, and Firefox 1.5 and higher on Windows and Linux. It is not supported on Macs. For more details see Official Google Blog: Now you can blog in Hindi




4. A Live Internet Connection is necessary to use this feature. If you see that it is unavailable check your connection. It is a free service and requires no software to be installed. If you have any problems you can discuss them here.




5. There is a personalization mechanism in place that enables Google to remember your writing style. Correct once, and get the word right every time after that! You can also enable the full on-screen keyboard and simply click the letters you want to insert.