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How to Type Transliterated Sanskrit with Diacritics in Mac OSX (Video + PDF)
Feb 15, 2019
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Note: this PDF workflow was generated on Feb 14, 2019 using Mac OS Mojave 10.14
Getting Started
There are various schemes for transliterating Sanskrit (as well as Pāli, Hindi, etc.) into Roman characters. Most common is the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) which utilizes a system of special “diacritic” marks above and below the characters (e.g., ā, ī, ś, ṣ). It is actually very easy to type on a Mac using diacritics, once you get your machine properly...
