Editing Devanagari transliteration (section)

==IAST==

The [[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration]] (IAST) is a subset of the [[ISO 15919]] standard, used for the transliteration of [[Sanskrit]], [[Prakrit]] and [[Pāḷi]] into Roman script with diacritics. [[IAST]] is a widely used standard. It uses [[diacritic]]s to disambiguate phonetically similar but not identical Sanskrit glyphs. For example, dental and retroflex consonants are disambiguated with an underdot: dental द=d and retroflex ड=ḍ.  An important feature of IAST is that it is losslessly reversible,{{citation needed|date=October 2017|reason=not mentioning e.g. devanagari ligature variant info not contained in IAST}} i.e., IAST transliteration may be converted back to correct Devanāgarī or to other South Asian scripts without ambiguity.  Many Unicode fonts fully support IAST display and printing.