CS Indic character set

The CS Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit Indic Character Set, is used by LaTex represent text used in the Romanization of Sanskrit.[1] It is used in fonts, and is based on Code Page 437.[2] Extended versions are the CSX Indic character set and the CSX+ Indic character set.[3][4]

Code page layout

CS Indic[5]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
8_ 128
9_ 144
A_ 160					ñ 00F1	Ñ 00D1	l̃ 006C 0303	ṁ 1E41
B_ 176
C_ 192
D_ 208
E_ 224	ā 0101		Ā 0100	ī 012B	Ī 012A	ū 016B	Ū 016A	ṛ 1E5B	Ṛ 1E5A	ṝ 1E5D	Ṝ 1E5C	ḷ 1E37	Ḷ 1E36	ḹ 1E39	Ḹ 1E38	ṅ 1E45
F_ 240	Ṅ 1E44	ṭ 1E6D	Ṭ 1E6C	ḍ 1E0D	Ḍ 1E0C	ṇ 1E47	Ṇ 1E46	ś 015B	Ś 015A	ṣ 1E63	Ṣ 1E62		ṃ 1E43	Ṃ 1E42	ḥ 1E25	Ḥ 1E24

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

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.[5]

References

1. Anshuman Pandey (December 1998). "Romanized Indix and LaTex" (PDF). TUGboat. TeX Users Group. 19 (4): 417.
2. "CTAN: /Tex-archive/Fonts/CSX/Fonts/Charter".
3. "Classical Sanskrit eXtended encoding for the representation of Indian languages in Roman script".
4. "The CSX+ encoding (Classical Sanskrit eXtended Plus) encoding used in (La)TeX".
5. Wujastyk, Dominik (1990). "HUMANIST listserv report". HUMANIST.