Enable Your Joomla To Write In Hindi, Marathi, Bengoli, Gujarati, Malyalam, Telugu and Punjabi.

Step 1:Install akIndicPlugin for tinyMCE

Upload files to webserver,

• Download the akIndicPlugin

• Extract the archive using winzip etc. in a folder named akindicplugin

• Now FTP the akindicplugin folder and all files inside it, to “plugins\editors\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\plugins” in case of Joomla 1.5.x or “mambots\editors\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\plugins” in case of Joomla 1.0.x, using Filezilla.

Modify the ‘tinymce.php‘ file

• Open tinymce.php file in “editors\tinymce” in Notepad++ or your favorite editor.

• In Joomla 1.0.x find $buttons2 = implode( ‘, ‘, $buttons2 ); or goto line number 250. In case of Joomla 1.5.x find $buttons2[] = ‘forecolor’; or goto line number 190.

• Add following lines at specified line numbers

• Save the file, and upload to webserver.

Once you are done, login to Joomla administrator panel and check tinyMCE, if you see a button on tinyMCE toolbar, Congratulations! you have finished the first step.

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Step 2: Make Joomla To Display Indian language

This is very easy, just make sure your template has charset set to UTF8 and you are done.

Wondering how you can check that, simple just do a view source of your web page and check for following line


is their in the page.

If it is missing, in that case simply add above line to “index.php” file in your Joomla template in frontend as well as administrator template.

Now to complete the whole process, just create a new language file in your language and you are done.