UAST: Unicode Aware Sanskrit Transliteration

Dhruvil Dave, Aneri Dalwadi
3/27/2022
cs.HC

Official code: aneri0x4f/uast-cli (5 stars, last commit 2026-10-20). 2 more implementations below.

Abstract

Devanāgarī is the writing system that is adapted by various languages like Sanskrit. International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme for romanisation of Sanskrit language. IAST makes use of diacritics to represent various characters. On a computer, these are represented using Unicode standard which differs from how the Sanskrit language behaves at a very fundamental level. This results in an issue that is encountered while designing typesetting software for devanāgarī and IAST. We hereby discuss the problems and provide a solution that solves the issue of incompatibilities between various transliteration and encoding schemes. The base implementation that should be used is available at https://github.com/dhruvildave/uast.rs. Another implementation that extends UAST to around $10$ scripts is available at https://github.com/aneri0x4f/uast-cli and https://github.com/dhruvildave/uast .

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aneri0x4f/uast-cliOfficial100%

UAST CLI

51Go, MakefileMar 30, 20222 days agoNOASSERTION
dhruvildave/uastOfficial100%

Unicode Aware Saṃskṛta Transliteration (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14277)

40CSS, HTMLMar 11, 20222 days agoNOASSERTION
sanskritsveltetypescriptunicode
dhruvildave/uast.rsCommunity100%
RustApache-2.0

Unicode Aware Saṃskṛta Transliteration in Rust

10Rust, MakefileAug 4, 20244 days agoApache-2.0

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@article{dave2022uast,
  title  = {UAST: Unicode Aware Sanskrit Transliteration},
  author = {Dhruvil Dave and Aneri Dalwadi},
  year   = {2022},
  eprint = {2203.14277},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14277}
}

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