Friday, December 02, 2011


Blogger has an exciting feature. Just go into "settings" and enable yourself to translate your blog into several other languages. A word of warning though, when you are on the dashboard page, do not, I repeat, do not click on Arabic unless you can write it. It will take you a while to find the English button again.

This feature comes with a tutorial, This is part of it:

"How do I use the transliteration feature?

The Quick Answer
  • Go to the Settings|Basic tab and enable the transliteration option.
  • * Select your language.
  • Click the Transliteration button on the posting form to type in transliteration mode.

What is transliteration?

Blogger offers an automatic transliteration option for converting Roman characters to the characters used in the following languages:

  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Bengali
  • Greek
  • Persian
  • Gujarati
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Nepali
  • Punjabi
  • Russian
  • Sanskrit
  • Serbian
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Tigriny
  • Urdu

  • This lets you type these languages phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note that this is not the same as translation -- the sound of the words is converted from one alphabet to the other, not the meaning. For example, typing 'hamesha' transliterates into Hindi as:
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  • Even though my native language is English, and I think and blog in English, someone who blogs in Russian could translate my blog into English.


    Imagine that!