The CS Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit Indic Character Set, is used by LaTeX represent text used in the

Romanization of Sanskrit Devanagari is an Indian script used for many languages of India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes ...

. It is used in fonts, and is based on Code Page 437. Extended versions are the CSX Indic character set and the

CSX+ Indic character set The CSX Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit eXtended Indic Character Set, is used by LaTeX represent text used in the Romanization of Sanskrit. It has no association with American railroad company CSX Transportation. It is an extension ...

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History

The CS and CSX character set was defined during an informal discussion over a beer between John Smith, Dominik Wujastyk and Ronald E. Emmerick during the World Sanskrit Conference in Vienna, 1990. A few months later they were endorsed by several other Indologists including Harry Falk, Richard Lariviere, G. Jan Meulenbeld, Hideaki Nakatani, Muneo Tokunaga, and Michio Yano.

References

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