Editing Devanagari transliteration (section)

===Schemes with diacritics===

====National Library at Kolkata romanisation====
{{main|National Library at Kolkata romanisation}}
The [[National Library at Kolkata romanisation]], intended for the romanisation of all [[Brahmic family|Indic scripts]], is an extension of [[IAST]]. It differs from IAST in the use of the symbols ē and ō for {{lang|hi|ए}} and {{lang|hi|ओ}} (e and o are used for the short vowels present in many Indian languages), the use of 'ḷ' for the consonant (in [[Kannada]]) {{lang|kn|ಳ}}, and the absence of symbols for {{lang|hi|ॠ}}, {{lang|hi|ऌ}} and {{lang|hi|ॡ}}.

====ISO 15919====
{{main|ISO 15919}}
A standard [[transliteration]] convention not just for Devanagari,<ref>[http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Hindi-Marathi-Nepali.pdf Devanagari comparison: ISO, ALA-LC, Hunterian] in 2005 by Thomas T. Pedersen at Eesti Keele Instituut [http://transliteration.eki.ee/ Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts]</ref> but for all South-Asian languages was codified in the ISO 15919 standard of 2001, providing the basis for modern digital libraries that conform to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) norms. ISO 15919 defines the common Unicode basis for Roman transliteration of South-Asian texts in a wide variety of languages/scripts.

ISO 15919 transliterations are platform-independent texts so that they can be used identically on all modern operating systems and software packages, as long as they comply with ISO norms. This is a prerequisite for all modern platforms so that ISO 15919 has become the new standard for digital libraries and archives for transliterating all South Asian texts.{{Original research inline|date=February 2011}}

ISO 15919<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/trind.htm Transliteration of Indic scripts: how to use ISO 15919] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414223033/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/trind.htm |date=14 April 2016 }} ntlworld.com.</ref> uses [[diacritic]]s to map the much larger set of [[Brāhmī script|Brahmi]]c graphemes to the Latin script. The Devanagari-specific portion is nearly identical to the academic standard, [[IAST]]: "International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration", and to [[ALA-LC]], the United States Library of Congress standard.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/hindi.pdf Hindi romanization LC] as pdf by Library of Congress standard, loc.gov.</ref>

Another standard, [[United Nations romanization systems for geographical names|United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names]] (UNRSGN), was developed by the United Nations Group of Experts<ref name="Geoname">{{Citation | title=Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names | author=United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | year=2007 | publisher=United Nations Publications, 2007 | isbn=978-92-1-161500-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mh8u32ANQxAC | quote=... ISO 15919 ... There is no evidence of the use of the system either in India or in international cartographic products ... The Hunterian system is the actually used national system of romanization in India ...}}</ref> on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/|title=UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems|website= United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names UNGEGN, www.eki.ee .Eesti Keele Instituut. |access-date=2017-02-14}}</ref> and covers many Brahmic scripts. There are some differences<ref name="diff">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/rom1_hi.htm|title=Differences between ISO 15919 and UNRSGN|date=March 2016|website=Working group on Romanization systems. United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names UNGEGN. www.eki.ee/wgrs/ .Eesti Keele Instituut |access-date=13 February 2017}}</ref> between ISO 15919 and UNRSGN.