Shreevatsa

Yes I know Devanagari and Kannada both have hrasva/dīrgha e/o. The problem is that 1. the program was designed for Sanskrit, 2. in practice, it was found that users were...

Good point; Marcis (@gasyoun) also asked for this a few times and in fact was using an old version that happened to support it better. I actually started writing some...

What would be the correct treatment in this case?

Can add फ़ as a consonant, will do. The broader fix I'm thinking of is to use some Javascript and show you (before you are taken to the results page)...

It would be a 1-line change to treat it as visarga. But before that: Looks like U+1CF6 VEDIC SIGN UPADHMANIYA is in the block "Vedic Extensions": http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1CD0.pdf Apart from yourself...

Looks like there is some confusion here between speech and writing. Panini was describing sounds. Devanagari is a system for representing them. A visarga preceding ka or pa will pronounced...

I meant अन्तश् शनैः, similarly the visarga becomes स-like before स, etc. Let me look up where I read this.

Sorry think I forgot to deploy (so the fix is only in the code and not on the website). Will do it soon (meanwhile code has gotten into a very...

Thank you @sridatta1! Very informative. Excellent work by both of you, as always. My question was actually very pedestrian: outside of grammatical discussions, in common cases where a visarga precedes...

Thank you for the report... this is a very confusing bug. Even though I knew when coding it that this would happen with Devanagari, and made a mental note to...