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CS Indic character set

classical Sanskrit character encoding

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ85749966 ↗
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The CS Indic character set, or the Classical Sanskrit Indic Character Set, is used to represent text used in the Romanization of Sanskrit. It is used in fonts, and is a modification of Code Page 437. Extended versions are the CSX Indic character set and the CSX+ Indic character set.

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History

The CS and CSX character sets were defined during an informal discussion over a beer between John Smith, Dominik Wujastyk and Ronald E. Emmerick during the World Sanskrit Conference in Vienna, 1990. A few months later they were endorsed by several other Indologists including Harry Falk, Richard Lariviere, G. Jan Meulenbeld, Hideaki Nakatani, Muneo Tokunaga, and Michio Yano.

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The public source identifies “CS Indic character set” as classical Sanskrit character encoding. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Indic, character and classical.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Indic, character and classical providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “CS Indic character set” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.