Sanskrit, typing and display

=How do I type and display Sanskrit on my PC/Mac? =

There are two separate issues here: (1) Sanskrit type is usually displayed using the Devanagari range of Unicode, for which both fonts and keyboards exist; (2) many Indologists still prefer to use the CSX (Classical Sanskrit Extended) or CSX+ transliteration schemes, which use the Latin alphabet and a complicated system of diacriticals.

Sanskrit type (Devanagari)
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 * http://www.sanskritweb.net/fonts/
 * http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/ahcen/coseru/unicode/
 * http://www.bhashaindia.com/patrons/Sanskrit/computing.aspx
 * http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~gbuhnema/fonts.html
 * http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/sanskritfonts.html
 * http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator99.htm

CSX+ Transcription
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 * Ghandari Unicode http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/software.php
 * Gentium (font) http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
 * Indian fonts ftp://bombay.oriental.cam.ac.uk/pub/john/software/fonts/induni/