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Professor Joshi proposes that a phonemic encoding scheme be adopted as the standard for machine processing of Sanskrit text. In the scheme he details, each phoneme is represented by a single character code that represents a single Sanskrit sound. Graphic units in Devanagari corresponding to syllabic units, including consonant plus /a/, are represented as sequences. Glyphs corresponding to intial vowels verses dependent vowels are not given distinct encodings; rather they are selected based upon context. (P. Scharf)
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Joshi, R.K., Dharmadhikari, T.N., Bedekar, V.V. (2009). The Phonemic Approach for Sanskrit Text. In: Huet, G., Kulkarni, A., Scharf, P. (eds) Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. ISCLS ISCLS 2007 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00155-0_23
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