Unicode and Microsoft’s commitment to it is creating history in online Telugu content. When compared with online content in other worlds major languages Telugu content might still be very micro sized. But it is significant amount when compared to what it was couple of years back.

        Before Unicode era it was not easy to write something online in Telugu script. Some wrote Telugu content in roman script, popular news papers came up with online editions but with non standard encoding and dynamic fonts technology. As most of the Educated Telugu are bi-lingual (Telugu & English) if not tri-lingual (Telugu, English & Hindi) they were happy to use chat + mail in either English or a mix of English and roman script Telugu.

         With Unicode support readily available on XP, Vista, even on 98 after some hacks the scenario began changing. Blogs, Online webzines, wiki created bulk of Telugu Unicode content on web. Now there are more than 1000 blogs which are writing Telugu in Telugu script. One interesting observation I have:- Before starting these blogs some of these people are lot worried about future of Telugu, but now they no longer worried! They have hopes for the survival of Telugu language spoken by more than 80 million people.

Sample Telugu Blog : http://nachaki.spaces.live.com/