[INDOLOGY] Devanāgarī

[adheesh sathaye]

Dear Patrick et al, 

On a Mac using the Devanagari QWERTY layout, one trick to get the long vocalic r glyphs is to do the following: 

1. switch to the Devanagari QWERTY keyboard
2. press and HOLD Option+r (which would ordinarily give you the regular short vocalic r
3. a popup menu should appear, with two options, either ऋ or ॄ. 
4. If you then type “1”, you can use the full long vocalic  ṝ, or if you press “2", you will be able to use the vowel marker. 

Hope that helps! I am using macos 11.7.10, so presumably newer versions also have this feature! 

with best wishes,
Adheesh


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Adheesh Sathaye
University of British Columbia



> On Oct 13, 2025, at 20:33, Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> I have the same problem.
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> Hans Henrich
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>> On Oct 13, 2025, at 22:13, Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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>> Dear All:
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>> I am using Devanagari-QWERTY keyboard with Sanskrit2003 font on a Macbook. I want to type the long “ṝ” in Devanagari (as in “pitṝn”), but I cannot find a way to type this in my keyboard. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thanks.
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