Thursday, June 23, 2011

Using the language option on Google

We get patrons who come from various language backgrounds using MA library computers.
Several of you may be familair that gmail has the language option, where the patron can use the pull down menu and make a language choice by clicking on the language option. This in turn will then allow the patron to use the regular keyboard with English letters to type an email in the language he/she prefers. For eg: when Russian is the language chosen from the pull down menu, a patron can type, "dasvidhanya", and it will convert it into that word in Russian lang script. This feature allow anyone who can speak a language type out that language word in English and it will perfectly transliterate that into the language chosen. No more toggling back and forth between Russian and English on keyboards.

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