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== 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/


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Revision as of 12:06, 14 November 2006

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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CSX+ Transcription

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