How to write WordPress blog posts in Indian languages

Last week when I discovered (or re-discovered) Baraha IME in its windows installable form, I was excited. I quickly fired off a Marathi e- mail to a friend through Thunderbird and received his reply in Marathi. He owns a Mac. Using Indian languages in everyday is far easier than 5 years ago when we had to depend on a multitude of propreitory IMEs like Aakruti, Inscript etc. to effectively type in Devanagari. I set about to find something to help me type my blog in Marathi andfound not just 1 but 3 Indic IMEs for WordPress -

  1. http://teck.in/google-indic-transliteration-wordpress-plugin.html
  2. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic/
  3. http://www.vishalon.net/IndicResources/IndicIME/tabid/244/Default.aspx

I plan to install and test each. Expect a review soon!

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