Sanskrit transliteration and collation.
This is a set of finite-state machines for sorting and transliterating Sanskrit texts.
A modern C compiler is required, which means either GCC or CLang. Then:
$ make && sudo make install
The above installs two binaries: skt_sort and skt_translit. Internal
routines used by these tools are defined in the two source files in this
directory. A Lua binding is available in the lua directory.
Two things to be borne in mind:
- Strings provided as input must be UTF-8 encoded, otherwise the routines won't work correctly. Likewise, they must be normalized to either of NFC and NFKC. Transliteration mappings always generate NFC strings.
- Transliteration is not necessarily a reversible process. For this reason, replacing a string with its transliteration and permanently discarding the original string is not a good idea.
Transliteration example:
$ skt_translit -i velthuis -o iast a.mza
aṃśa
Sorting example:
$ sort -R test/monier.txt | head -5 | skt_sort
āyurdāvan
jaraṇyu
tūṣa
lalitāgadyanirūpaṇa
vināyakasahasranāman