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Want to blog in Sanskrit ?

Want to blog in Sanskrit ? Now you can read and post blogs in Sanskrit, The ancient language which some thought was disappearing. Sites and blogs as samskrute.blogspot.com, sanskritvoice.com sanskritam.ning.com and the blog posta, which are written only in Sanskrit. For those who can't understand Sanskrit, can seek help from web site with English translations. Some are diehard Sanskritophiles are writing Sanskrit blogs, but in the English script.

Many may find a problem with FireFox and Devanagari script. FireFox doesn't seem to render joined Devanagari letters correctly, at least on Windows. IE works just fine. But in case of sanskrit its different. There are whole lot of areas where people want to use Sanskrit language and it becomes almost imperative for all operating systems and other applications to grow into this Unicode application where they can support Sanskrit fonts and characters.

Presently, Microsoft provides support for a Hindi oriented font called Mangal Font. This font does have all the letters that are used in Sanskrit but it does not allow you to write Sanskrit as you will like to. Sanskrit written text is more congested due to its smaller syntax and therefore lots of conjunctions are used in different letters that are not supported by Mangal Font. Sanskrit 99 font is one of the fonts that can be used to write text in Sanskrit without being worried about various conjunct letters that you might have to use. Sanskrit 99 font allows all the usually used conjunctions of Sanskrit letters.

Microsoft, Apple and Linux developers should provide this unique feature of creating a special font for Sanskrit that can be used for publishing online. Presently, even if you use Sanskrit 99 font, you won’t be able to publish on web but will have to use it as PDF or hardcopy. Microsoft does not support any special Sanskrit font and therefore IE does not display the characters.

Presently, there is lot of focus on targeting different languages by developers and companies that provide software, and this needs to be taken into consideration taking into account the increasing community of users who like to write, read, converse and interact using Sanskrit language on internet. Windows should be able to support a special kind of font totally oriented for Sanskrit language and perhaps it will allow Sanskrit lovers to use Internet with Sanskrit.

In order to facilitate the use of Sanskrit on the Internet, there is also a Sanskrit download Toolbar for popular Web browsers. Bloggers are also used to download software that allows real-time translation of English sentences.

Some of the popular Sanskrit-language blogs are Samskritam by Kartik and Vadatu Sanskritam by Narasimha. One of the less explored aspects of blogging is that it provides an opportunity to revitalize the classical languages. It's amazing efforts to preserve one of the oldest languages in the world.