I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”

and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
“द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”

Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
“The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”

Sort of a start, i guess.

--
Pete

On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>
> and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”

That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.

> Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
> “The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”

Not bad - I wonder if brown is not a colour in Sanskrit and it's an
odd use of sloth but valid I goove although slothful would be more common.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
>> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>>
>> and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
>> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”
>
> That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.
>
>> Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
>> “The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”
>
> Not bad - I wonder if brown is not a colour in Sanskrit and it's an
> odd use of sloth but valid I goove although slothful would be more common.
>

Came thru on my iPad, and I’m surprised - first, that usenet supports it,
and second, that newstap (my client) supports it.

--
Pete

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
>>> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>>>
>>> and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
>>> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”
>>
>> That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.
>>
>>> Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
>>> “The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”
>>
>> Not bad - I wonder if brown is not a colour in Sanskrit and it's an
>> odd use of sloth but valid I goove although slothful would be more common.
>>
>
> Came thru on my iPad, and I’m surprised - first, that usenet supports it,
> and second, that newstap (my client) supports it.

GNUS (Emacs) has no problem.
The message is marked as utf-8.

--
Dan Espen

On 2022-05-14, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
>>> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>>>
>>> and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
>>> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”
>>
>> That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.
>>
>>> Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
>>> “The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”
>>
>> Not bad - I wonder if brown is not a colour in Sanskrit and it's an
>> odd use of sloth but valid I goove although slothful would be more common.
>>
>
> Came thru on my iPad, and I’m surprised - first, that usenet supports it,
> and second, that newstap (my client) supports it.
>

came through on slrn.

--
greymausg@mail.com
Ten, twenty million losses, tops

On Sat, 14 May 2022 21:29:15 +0100
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
> > “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
> >
> > and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
> > “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”
>
> That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.

Looks fine with Lohit installed.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

Peter Flass wrote:

> द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्

Readable in Thunderbird on Win10

According to Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
>I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>
>and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”

It's Unicode, encoded as UTF-8, so I would expect more often than not
it displays OK.

Sanskrit has roughly the same status in India as classical Latin in Europe,
lots of classic texts are written in it, and it's widely studied in school.
So there are plenty of training texts, although perhaps not so many using
colloquial language, hence lazy -> sloth.

--
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

On Sat, 14 May 2022 22:26:43 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700
>>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought I’d give it a try. I typed:
>>>> “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
>>>>
>>>> and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
>>>> “द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्”
>>>
>>> That one is beyond my font support - which is pretty rare.
>>>
>>>> Then I translated the Sanskrit back to English, and got:
>>>> “The swift black fox jumped over the sloth dog's back.”
>>>
>>> Not bad - I wonder if brown is not a colour in Sanskrit and it's an
>>> odd use of sloth but valid I goove although slothful would be more common.
>>>
>>
>> Came thru on my iPad, and I’m surprised - first, that usenet supports it,
>> and second, that newstap (my client) supports it.
>
> GNUS (Emacs) has no problem.
> The message is marked as utf-8.

Its a font thing, even if correctly declared. Using GNUS too and can
*not* see anything but "checkers" (?).
--
Andreas

On Sun, 15 May 2022 20:41:15 -0400
Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:

> Its a font thing, even if correctly declared. Using GNUS too and can
> *not* see anything but "checkers" (?).

I had to install the font Lohit (red in Sanskrit apparently) to get
it to display properly.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/