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What is Google Transliterate?

Google offers an automatic transliteration option that converts Roman characters to the characters used in Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. This feature lets you type these languages phonetically in English letters, but they’ll appear in their correct alphabet. Keep in mind that transliteration is different from translation; the sound of the words is converted from one alphabet to the other, not the meaning.

What I did?
I did a integration of Google Transliterate with Wordpress & punBB. My plugin allows you to write phonetically with the help of Google Transliteration in the Wordpress post editor and also in punBB post box. This will not work in rich text editor mode in wordpress, you need to switch on HTML mode.

How does it work?
The bellow images tells you everything

• You can select your desired language from the list



• After Selecting the language, active the google transliteration option by clicking the text.



• Type the words phonetically. Once you type a space or a punctuation mark, the letters will be converted to corresponding language characters, like this:



• If you need to correct a transliterated word, click the word; you’ll see a menu of alternate spellings, in addition to an option to switch back to the Roman characters you typed. If you type the same word again, it will then be transliterated correctly based on your saved preference.

Today i have developed a simple punbb forum extension for our developer forum. It includes a feature that adds a textarea resizer feature to the message writing area such as writing a quick post, writing a topic, PM or email. It uses jQuery.

From one of my previous post, i told you that i’ve worked with punBB Bangla language pack for the version 1.3 RC. Now the full version of punBB 1.3.2 has released and my language pack is also ready for this. You can download the language pack from here. This Bangla language pack is only for the user interface only. I didn’t translate the admin section. So, enjoy it…

Download punBB 1.3.2 Bangla Language Pack (159)

Few months ago i have worked with PunBB. PunBB is a forum engine and it is very fast and also light-weight. I have translated the language pack to Bangla. It is 1.3 RC1. This punBB version is in Release candidate list. It will be in stable version in a few days ( i guess). In this punBB 1.3 RC1 version, the interface is attractive with respect to 1.2 version. I hope i can deliver the latest update for this forum engine.