Automatic ITRANS Transliteration

Recent generations of web browsers are fully capable of displaying a variety of languages and character sets. This has made it possible for computer users the world over to view Sanskrit texts in their original Devanagari. However, convenient searching of these texts has remained challenging because of a lack of good input methods.

Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows now feature standard keyboard layouts for Devanagari. Unfortunately, they are arbitrary and nearly impossible to use. The ITRANS scheme is both well-known and highly intuitive. Hence, I have chosen it for transliteration on this site.

The automatic transliterations you see here have been generated by processing Wikisource Devanagari script (UTF-8 encoded for visibility in browsers) through a Ruby parser.