/kharoshthitransliterator

A tool to transliterate in Kharoshthi script

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

This repo contains a transliterator for the ancient Kharoshthi script.

About Kharoshthi:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi
  2. https://inasentence.net/Kharosthi

Unicode code block: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10A00.pdf

Notes:

  1. Roman to Kharoshthi mapping in romantokharoshthi.map
  2. Transliterator script: kharoshthi.py

python3 kharoshthi.py

Output in kharoshthi.txt, Add new names to testset in kharoshthi.py

To do:

  1. Improve coverage of map file (some characters are not covered currently)
  2. Create test set based on coin inscriptions and other inscriptional data
  3. Add sanity tests using synthetic examples - backtranslation and length tests