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diCrunch is a conversion tool for most Indic diacritic systems and several Indic scripts, listed below in more detail. You can use diCrunch to convert transliterated Sanskrit, Pali, Bengali, Hindi, etc. into Indic script, to convert text between different transliteration schemes, to convert one Indic script to another, and to convert Indic script to a romanized transliteration scheme of your choice.

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diCrunch is open-source and licensed under GNU General Public License. You can read the license here.

• To download the tool: diCrunch.zip (35 KB)
• To read the changelog: Click here

If you want to install the application for yourself, just upload it to any webserver with PHP support and point your browser to it. If you intend to put diCrunch to heavy regular use, please install your own copy instead of stressing our servers.

The default font for the diCrunch text processing field is CODE2000, a shareware Unicode font containing all IAST diacritics and main Indic scripts in a single file. There are a number of Unicode fonts that support the diacritics necessary for Sanskrit transliteration — there's a good list here, and Google helps with the rest.

Important Note: Roman text will only be accurately converted if the appropriate diacritic marks are included. Read up on Devanagari Transliteration. Where in doubt, check in with someone who can read the script before tattooing it across your forehead to avoid embarrasments.

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Balaram: Allocating diacritic marks to characters in the extended ASCII range, commonly used in BBT and ISKCON productions. Read more.
CSX: Acronym for Classical Sanskrit eXtended, an encoding allocating characters to extended ASCII range. Read more.
Harvard-Kyoto: An ASCII-based transliteration system, including XHK extensions. Read more.
IAST Unicode: The standard IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration) diacritics in Unicode. Read more.
ITRANS: Acronym for Indian languages TRANSliteration, an ASCII-based transliteration system. Read more
Velthuis: An ASCII-based transliteration system developed by Frans Velthuis. Read more
Remove: Strips away diacritics, replacing them with approximate phonetic alternatives: ṣ becomes sh, ṛ becomes ri, the rest are removed.
Bengali script: The script used for writing Bengali, Manipuri and some other languages. Read more.
Devanagari script: The script used for writing Sanskrit, Hindi and several other languages. Read more.
Oriya script: The script used for writing Oriya and some other languages. Read more.

The following file extensions are permitted for uploaded files: TXT, ITX, HTM, HTML, XML. Uploaded files are not stored on our server – they are uploaded into a temporary folder and purged as the conversion completes.

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