ISO15919

Let's say you received a Baraha document containing Gujarati text which you don't know how to read. If you are familiar with any other Indian script, you can choose that script in Script Override menu. But, if you don't know any Indian script, you may choose ISO15919 in the Script Override, which will display the Gujarati text using Latin characters with diacritics as shown in the picture.

ISO15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Indic scripts to Latin alphabet. It uses diacritics to map the Indic consonants and vowels to Latin script. IAST, which is an alternative scheme used for Sanskrit, is slightly different from ISO15919. Baraha supports ISO15919 text in both ANSI and Unicode encoding. BRH Latin font is used to display ISO15919 text in ANSI encoding. BRHDev01 font is used to display Latin text in Unicode encoding.

“sulida bāḷeya haṇṇinaṁdadi, kaḷeda sigurina kabbinaṁdadi, aḷida uṣṇada hālinaṁdadi sulabhavāgirpa kannaḍa”
“ಸುಲಿದ ಬಾಳೆಯ ಹಣ್ಣಿನಂದದಿ, ಕಳೆದ ಸಿಗುರಿನ ಕಬ್ಬಿನಂದದಿ, ಅಳಿದ ಉಷ್ಣದ ಹಾಲಿನಂದದಿ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿರ್ಪ ಕನ್ನಡ”


“yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata | abhyutthānamadharmasya tadātmānaṁ sr̥jāmyaham ||”
“यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥”

Baraha supports ISO15919 in the following way:

• In Baraha editor, you can select View | Script Override | ISO15919 menu command to display the entire document in ISO15919 characters. You can also use latin and -latin switches to enable/disable ISO15919 output.
• In BarahaPad, you can type ISO15919 text by selecting Settings | Output | ISO15919 menu. You can convert the Indian language text to ISO15919 characters using Tools | Convert To | ISO15919 menu.
• In BarahaIME, you can type ISO15919 text by selecting Output | ISO15919 menu. You can convert the Indian language text to ISO15919 characters using Convert To | ISO15919 menu.