If it is of any use in this discussion, the link to the webpage (from the
wayback machine) of "Transliteration of Indic Scripts. How to use ISO
15919" is
https://web.archive.org/web/20160418005410/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/trind.htm

This webpage was created by Dr. Tony Stone. Tony Stone was the  project
leader of ISO/TC46/SC2/WG12 (Working Group on transliteration of Indic
scripts)

Harry Spier


On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:39 PM Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> last week ISO/TC 46 decided to revise ISO 15919:2001, currently called
> “Information and documentation — Transliteration of Devanagari and related
> Indic scripts into Latin characters”. This standard currently specifies the
> transliteration rules for Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya,
> Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Sinhala. Like with any recent
> revision of a transliteration standard, one of the tasks of the revision is
> to formalize the rules using Unicode codepoints.
>
> I imagine many users or potential users of the standard are in this group
> and I would like to invite everyone to share their feedback on this
> standard and learn how it could be updated to better serve the community. I
> am aware for example casing and case sensitivity has been brought up in the
> past in this group. Other possible improvements include covering more Indic
> scripts and/or standardization of transcribing historical texts,
> manuscripts, epigraphy etc.
>
> Feel free to respond to me offline or online with your concerns and
> suggestions or if you would be interested in participating in a working
> group regarding this revision.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Jan Kučera
> Institute of Asian Studies
> Charles University, Prague
>
>
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