Using GMail's Transliteration tool to create documents in Punjabi(Gurmukhi) or Hindi or any other supported script

One can use GMail's transliteration tool to create documents in Punjabi(Gurmukhi) or Hindi or any other supported script. At the time of this writing GMail supports Arabic, Bangla, Gujrati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Farsi.  If you are not already doing it, this post explains how you can do it.

Launch your browser and open GMail. Now compose a new mail. If your browser looks like the following screenshot, then you do not have transliteration enabled at this time.

Now click on settings from the top right options and once "Settings" are loaded click on "Show all language options" as shown in the screenshot below.

After page loads up, you should be able to see a check box labelled "Enable Transliteration - type using Phonetic English", as shown in the screenshot below.

Now click on the dropdown and choose your preferred language for transliteration.

Click on "Save Changes" to enable transliteration.

Now compose a mail. You should be able to see an extra button labelled "ਅ" in case you selected "ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" or  "अ" in case you chose "हिन्दी" as your preferred language of transliteration, as shown in the following screenshots.

Now assuming you want to create document in Punjabi, click on Transliteration button and start typing. In the following example, I typed sat sri akal.

If you feel the word is incorrectly transliterated, you can fix it by clicking on the text and you will be provided with various options of the word as shown in the following screenshot.

Following is an example of creating a document in Hindi.

If you feel the word was incorrectly transliterated, you can fix it by clicking on the text and you will be provided with various options of the word as shown in the following screenshot.

Now you can not only send emails in Hindi/Punjabi or any other language supported by GMail, but you can also create other documents. Simply cut and paste the text from your browser to the other application and you are good to go.