Optitrans V1

  • OptItrans is optimal Indic transliteration. Type indic scripts with minimal effort. For general philosophy and history, see main page.
  • The latest transliteration table is always available in this online spreadsheet. It lists transliteration rules from OptiTrans and several other popular schemes (including Baraha, Harvard-Kyoto, ITRANS, Velthuis, IAST) for easy comparison.

Examples

  • shankara manju - शङ्कर मञ्जु
  • shiv shankar (while writing hindI) - शिव शङ्कर
  • shiv shankar (while writing Samskrita) - शिव् शङ्कर्
  • ak.ha man.hju - अक्ह मन्जु
  • mukha - मुख
  • shraddhAvAn asi. gacCha. - श्रद्धावान् असि। गच्छ।

Known implementations

  • optitransv1 is used for lookups by the stardict-sanskrit project [1].
  • Gmail’s hindI and sanskrit phonetic input are similar.