On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 17:35:14 +0530 विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:48 PM Richard Wordingham via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 02:05:35 +0000 > > Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > The text in IAST that I encounter seems not to have ansuvara before > > stop consonants. > That's typical. > Whatever the source script (if there is one), IAST tends to be used by > people who follow the sanskrit devanAgarI conventions pretty strictly > (so ends up being transcription rather than transliteration.) > > I believe 'sa' would naturally expand (are there > > non-void prescribed rules on this?) as sa-Deva-IN, so perhaps the > > sa-Latn I usually see is unusual as sa-t-m0-iast and the description > > should be expanded to at least sa-t-m0-sa-150-iast if sa-Latn is not > > precise enough. > Not sure what 150 is doing there.. I read, but in an old book, that when Sanskrit was printed in Devanagari, clusters phonetically composed of nasal plus plosive were written using the nasal consonant, but in India were printed using anusvara. The Sanskrit version of the UN Declaration of Human Rights at Unicode (https://unicode.org/udhr/d/udhr_san.html) conforms to this pattern by using anusvara instead of clusters, but I don't know where the translation actually came from. Accordingly, I thought that to get clusters instead of anusvara before plosives, I should select Sanskrit as used in Europe, as opposed to Sanskrit as used in India. '150' is the region code for Europe. Richard.