TheCS Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit Indic Character Set, is used by LaTeX represent text used in theRomanization of Sanskrit.[1] It is used in fonts, and is based onCode Page 437.[2] Extended versions are theCSX Indic character set and theCSX+ Indic character set.[3][4]
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 8x | ||||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | ñ | Ñ | l̃ | ṁ | ||||||||||||
| Bx | ||||||||||||||||
| Cx | ||||||||||||||||
| Dx | ||||||||||||||||
| Ex | ā | Ā | ī | Ī | ū | Ū | ṛ | Ṛ | ṝ | Ṝ | ḷ | Ḷ | ḹ | Ḹ | ṅ | |
| Fx | Ṅ | ṭ | Ṭ | ḍ | Ḍ | ṇ | Ṇ | ś | Ś | ṣ | Ṣ | ṃ | Ṃ | ḥ | Ḥ |
The CS and CSX character set was defined during an informal discussion over a beer between John Smith, Dominik Wujastyk andRonald E. Emmerick during theWorld Sanskrit Conference in Vienna, 1990. A few months later they were endorsed by several other Indologists includingHarry Falk,Richard Lariviere,G. Jan Meulenbeld, Hideaki Nakatani,Muneo Tokunaga, and Michio Yano.[5]