Devanagari

Standalone

Malayalam

Conjoined e f r g t =

IAST

Remarks

1 2

a i u

D E F R G T +

Ctrl Alt + Ctrl Alt =

Note "+" requires you to use "Shift"

2

Ctrl Alt F Ctrl Alt f Not for Malayalam

Ctrl Alt R Ctrl Alt r Only standalone in Malayalam

! Z S W |

@ z s w \ `

Not clear what sound this is Not normal in Sanskrit

e ai

"Q" row, rightmost; "a" as in "back" Number row, leftmost

International Association for Sanskrit Transliteration Those that cannot be typed using the key combinations can inserted directly from the character set or one can define keyboard mappings. What is shown here is the standard keyboard mapping.

Devanagari

Standalone

Malayalam

Conjoined a q x _ d

IAST

Remarks

A Q

au b a f a m ka

Shift and minus ("em" dash ie., long dash). halanta

k K i I U ; : p P } ' " [ 2 Shift and right curly bracket "A" row, 2nd from the right Shift and the above Do not use colon for visarga! Capital letter "I"

kha ga gha a ca cha

ja

jha a
a

ha

Devanagari

Standalone

Malayalam

Conjoined

IAST

Remarks

ha a
ta

{ C l L o O v h H y Y c / j n b M m < 2nd row from the bottom, near "m" 3 2nd row from the bottom, right Small letter "O" Capital letter "O" Small letter "L"

tha
da

dha na
p

pha ba bha ma
ya ra la va

a
a

sa

Devanagari

Standalone

Malayalam

Conjoined
Ctrl Alt > or Ctrl Alt V

IAST

Remarks

1 a

ha

J N B u Only in Sanskrit. Note ">" requires Shift. Used for elided "a" in sandhi. Insert characters
Ctrl Alt . Ctrl Alt , Ctrl Alt X Ctrl Alt 1

Only in Malayalam Only in Malayalam

Only in Sanskrit Used for abbreviations Note "X" requires Shift Will display in the input language. Similarly for other numbers.
Ctrl Alt ; Vedic anudtta () Ctrl Alt " Vedic svarita ())@)

This is the INSCRIPT keyboard layout.

This supports most of the needs for typing Classical Sanskrit. The instructions for enabling Sanskrit or other Indian languages are described in the document named keyboard_setup. The keystrokes for getting a letter is the same for all Indian languages, as long as the languages have the corresponding letters. Numbers cannot be typed in spreadsheets; they get converted automatically. You can type them in a text document and cut and paste. Additional information can be found Itranslator Help document. Advanced keystrokes are there for getting the "dot" under some Hindi letters, and vedic svaras. Vedic svaras other than those shown above work only through Itrans program, and are not part of Unicode. In Unicode one letter is represented by one character internally across all font systems for that language. So you can change the fonts based on your preferences without altering the contents. In some places in the above table, I have shown "Insert characters". The instructions for this shown below:

Insert Characters
In MS Word or MS Excel (2010 )...
3

Click on the Insert tab Click on the "Symbol" (the one at the right-most), and then immediately click on "More Symbols". [Your recently used symbols will be here to use readily.] It brings the following screen.

Set the font on the left side near the top, and the language or script
3 You can try similar steps in MS Office 2007.

to the right use. Select the character you want and press "Insert". In OpenOffice Writer or Calc Choose Insert / Special Characters.

Choose the font and script as above. Select the character you wish to insert and choose OK.

The following are some of the Devanagari Unicode fonts: Font Arial Unicode (Devanagari) Kokila Mangal Sanskrit 2003 Chandas Siddhanta Uttara Usage Classical Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit Classical & Vedic Sanskrit Classical & Vedic Sanskrit Classical & Vedic Sanskrit Classical & Vedic Sanskrit

Malayalam Unicode should use Kartika font. I found many issues with Arial Unicode for Malayalam, especially with conjoined vowels in spreadsheets. For displaying Sanskrit in Roman (IAST) the following are the Unicode fonts: Font Arial Unicode Calibri URW Palladio ITU Usage Classical Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit Classical and Vedic Sanskrit
4

The Balaram font used by Gaudiya Granthamandira is a variation of URW Palladio IT (not ITU) and is not Unicode. For further questions, contact ccparam@gmail.com
4 This is the reason why my "vai aviam booklet" uses this font.