In case you are wondering, how I type Sanskrit in my blogs, let me share with you the knowhow. Well Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit are written in Devanagri script.
Most bloggers of Indian origin are English speaking and are more comfortable with Querty than Indic keyboard.
Eons ago, the Department of Information Technology had funded a project with IIT Kanpur, called GIST. Now CDAC carries the torch. It resulted in LIPI and ISCI . It is now dated. Only die hard Don Quixotes of IT at government funded agencies use it. No more used in real life.
In-fact we burned a few Lakhs of rupees in consulting and Indian language conversion with CDAC, and got zilch result. But what paid off is their brand name that sells in the Banking segment.
But if you are not into politics of IT sales, then what's the technology you should go for?
The technology is Unicode. Both Windows, Linux and Solaris support it.
Best and simplest of all you can type in English and transliterate it in Hindi! That's what Google supports, see: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/now-you-can-blog-in-hindi.html
Also checkout ITRANS, which is the original technology on which Google is based.
But what's under the hood? Good question :)
Check out my test page at : http://ash.banerjee.googlepages.com/dev2uni.html
The Java source code is available there. In-fact, by changing just a few lines of code, Inheritance in Java speak, I could make it work for Bengali and Punjabi! That's the beauty of Indian languages.
By the way Sanskrit is the most scientific language ever spoken. And A.A.Mcdonald in his Sanskrit grammar book wrote that Sanskrit is at-least 200 years ahead of English. And Panini was the world's first grammarian!
Now go and Blog in Hindi.
