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