Transliteration of Indic scripts into Latin characters

ISO 15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Indic scripts to the Latin alphabet. It uses diacritics to map the Indic consonants and vowels to the Latin script. IAST, which is an alternative scheme used for Sanskrit, is slightly different from ISO 15919.

“sulida bāḷeya haṇṇinaṁdadi, kaḷeda sigurina kabbinaṁdadi, aḷida uṣṇada hālinaṁdadi sulabhavāgirpa kannaḍa”
(“ಸುಲಿದ ಬಾಳೆಯ ಹಣ್ಣಿನಂದದಿ, ಕಳೆದ ಸಿಗುರಿನ ಕಬ್ಬಿನಂದದಿ, ಅಳಿದ ಉಷ್ಣದ ಹಾಲಿನಂದದಿ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿರ್ಪ ಕನ್ನಡ”)

Just like the Indian scripts, Baraha supports the Latin text in both ANSI and UNICODE formats. The BRH Latin font is used to display the latin text in ANSI format. To display the latin text in UNICODE format, a Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS should be installed in your system.

Baraha supports ISO 15919 in the following way:

• In Baraha editor, you can use latin and -latin switches to enable/disable the latin output.
• In Baraha editor, you can select View | Script Override | Latin menu command to display the entire document in Latin characters.
• In BarahaDirect/BarahaIME/BarahaPad, you can convert the Indian language text to ISO 15919 or IAST characters.

The following images show the mapping of Indic text to Latin characters.