Blogging In Your Native Language: Transliteration (Blogger)
Not everyone who blogs on the Blogger platform has English has his/her native language. Blogger has an excellent transliteration tool that allows bloggers to blog in their own langauge. Read on!
Blogger supports an excellent transliteration feature that enables you to blog in regional languages of your choice. The number of available languages depends on your location on the globe. You do not need any special keyboard to type your native language. Google’s transliteration technology automatically converts the typed text into the selected language:
Blogger Transliteration Feature
To enable this feature, go to ‘Settings -> Basic (subtab) -> Enable transliteration?’. Select ‘Enable’ from the drop down box and save the settings. To write the transliterated post, open the post editor in ‘Compose’ mode:
Transliteration On the Fly In Blogger
On the right side you will find the transliteration button with a drop down menu. Choose your desired regional language and press the button. This transliteration button works in toggle mode. Once this feature is enabled pressing it again will disable this feature and vice-versa. In this way you can use different regional languages in a single post.
Word Correction In Blogger Transliteration
If you want to correct any word or are not satisfied with the transliteration, you can simply left click on the word and a drop menu will appear giving you alternate suggestions; it’s almost the same as a spell checker. If you are still not satisfied with the alternate suggestions in the drop down menu, you can click the ‘Edit…’ option in the menu to open ‘On the fly suggestion box’ that will give you suggestions of different letter combinations:
Letter Suggestion In Blogger Transliteration
And if you want the full on-screen keyboard click the ‘Keyboard’ image of the left of red question mark as shown in the image above. This will open an ajax powered, draggable keyboard for the current laguage, giving you complete control in letter selection:
On-Screen Keyboard In Blogger
Blogger transliteration feature is supported on Windows 2000/XP on IE 6+ and Firefox 1.5+. Currently this feature is not available for Mac systems. To use this feature you must edit your post in ‘Compose’ mode. Switching to ‘HTML’ mode will disable this feature, but thankfully already transliterated text will remain intact. Remember this feature requires live internet connection as the typed text is translated in real time on Google servers. So enable this feature and see which regional languages are available to you to express your feelings in your own language!