Appendix B: Text Input System
- (1)
- Sanskrit diacritics are entered using the Unicode Standard Encoding (utf-8):
- vowels and diphthongs:
- a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ṛ, ṝ, ḷ, e, ai, o, au
- gutturals:
- k, kh, g, gh, ṅ
- palatals:
- c, ch, j, jh, ñ
- cerebrals:
- ṭ, ṭh, ḍ, ḍh, ṇ
- dentals:
- t, th, d, dh, n
- labials:
- p, ph, b, bh, m
- semivowels:
- y, r, l, v
- sibilants:
- ś, ṣ, s
- aspirate:
- h
- anusvāra:
- ṃ
- visarga:
- ḥ
- avagraha:
- '
- (2)
- Anusvāra is transliterated by:
- ṅ
- before gutturals
- ñ
- before palatals
- ṇ
- before cerebrals
- n
- before dentals
- m
- before labials