The CS Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit Indic Character Set, is used by LaTeX represent text used in the Romanization of Sanskrit.[1] It is used in fonts, and is based on Code Page 437.[2] Extended versions are the CSX Indic character set and the CSX+ Indic character set.[3][4]
Code page layout
edit| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 8x | ||||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | ñ | Ñ | l̃ | ṁ | ||||||||||||
| Bx | ||||||||||||||||
| Cx | ||||||||||||||||
| Dx | ||||||||||||||||
| Ex | ā | Ā | ī | Ī | ū | Ū | ṛ | Ṛ | ṝ | Ṝ | ḷ | Ḷ | ḹ | Ḹ | ṅ | |
| Fx | Ṅ | ṭ | Ṭ | ḍ | Ḍ | ṇ | Ṇ | ś | Ś | ṣ | Ṣ | ṃ | Ṃ | ḥ | Ḥ |
History
editThe CS and CSX character set was defined during an informal discussion over a beer between John Smith, Dominik Wujastyk and Ronald E. Emmerick during the World Sanskrit Conference in Vienna, 1990. A few months later they were endorsed by several other Indologists including Harry Falk, Richard Lariviere, G. Jan Meulenbeld, Hideaki Nakatani, Muneo Tokunaga, and Michio Yano.[5]
References
edit- ^ Anshuman Pandey (December 1998). "Romanized Indix and LaTex" (PDF). TUGboat. 19 (4). TeX Users Group: 417.
- ^ "CTAN: /Tex-archive/Fonts/CSX/Fonts/Charter".
- ^ "Classical Sanskrit eXtended encoding for the representation of Indian languages in Roman script".
- ^ "The CSX+ encoding (Classical Sanskrit eXtended Plus) encoding used in (La)TeX".
- ^ a b Wujastyk, Dominik (1990). "HUMANIST listserv report". HUMANIST.