Scriptural Source - Encoding Schemes for Sanksrit to Roman script

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "atmadarshanam" <fsgss> wrote:

>

>   Hello everyone,

>

>    I like International Diacritics the better. One can more easily

> aprehend the subtleties of sounds in Sanskrit with ID

transcription,

> although it is not possible so far to type it using computers. But

> for example I have noticed sometimes people write "Siva" instead

> of "Shiva". One who is not familiar with Sanskrit will pronounce

it

> wrongly as Siva (see-va). The ´ mark above the s would solve the

> matter, indicating that the sound is a slightly aspirated s, which

> is neither the one is Siva nor in Shiva (if I have learnt

correctly).

>    It would be of great use if someone could find a software to

use

> the ID trasncription method for computers. Printed books already

use

> it almost unanimously. It allowe the subtle sounds of Sanskrit to

be

> more clearly appreciated by the speaker/reader. Until then,

anything

> that works, goes, lol.

 

 

Moderators' Note:

 

         The reasons for the development of Harvard-Kyoto and Itrans

encoding schemes to work within the limits of the QWERTY keyboard.

Adding keys to represent all the diacritics would have made the

keyboard look like the instrument-panel of a space-ship!

 

         Conversion programs are being developed to convert one

scheme to another. Font development and phonetic symbols also is a

separate problem by itself.

 

         The following programs are currently available.

 

          Terms of Service.