On Feb 19, 8:44 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:32 -0800, rusi wrote: > > I have some bunch of sanskrit (devanagari) to type. It would be easiest > > for me if I could have the English (roman) as well as the sanskrit > > (devanagari). > > > For example using the devanagari-itrans input method I can write the > > gayatri mantra using > > > OM bhUrbhuvaH suvaH > > tatsaviturvarenyam > > bhargo devasya dhImahi > > dhiyo yonaH prachodayAt > > > and emacs produces *on the fly* (ie I cant see/edit the above) > > > ॐ भूर्भुवः सुवः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यम् भर्गो > > देवस्य धीमहि धियो योनः > > > प्रचोदयात् > > > Can I do it in batch mode? ie write the first in a file and run some > > command on it to produce the second? > > What is the devanagari-itrans input method? Do you actually type the > characters into a terminal?
Its one of the dozens (hundreds actually) of input methods that emacs has. In emacs M-x set-input-method and then give devanagari-itrans. Its details are described (somewhat poorly) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS > > If so, you should be able to type the first into a file, copy it, then > paste it into the input buffer to be processed. For now Ive got it working in emacs with some glitches but it will do for now: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/bfa6b05ce565d96d# > > -- > Steven Thanks [Actually thanks-squared one for looking two for backing up this thread to something more useful than ... :-) ] Coincidentally, along this, your response, Ive got another mail to another unicode related interest of mine: apl under linux. So far I was the sole (known) user of this: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AplInDebian I hear the number of users has just doubled :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
