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Lipimala : The Indic Script Converter
Exact-source Indic transliteration across 4 runtimes
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built lipimala after running into a subtle problem with transliteration:
Converting
Kṛṣṇa → कृष्ण
is straightforward.
But converting कृष्ण back cannot tell you whether the original input was:
Kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa
Kr̥ṣṇa
or another accepted equivalent representation.
The information simply isn't present in the visible Devanagari string.
lipimala separates those two concepts:
• canonical transliteration
• exact original-source recovery
For exact workflows, it can preserve source provenance using either:
1. a structured TransliterationResult / JSON envelope, or
2. invisible checksummed Unicode-Tag metadata attached to the rendered string.
It currently focuses on:
• IAST / extended Indic
• Devanagari
• Gujarati
• Plain English / Hunterian
• Vedic accent preservation
• direct Devanagari ↔ Gujarati conversion
There are native implementations for:
• Dart
• JavaScript / Node.js
• Python
• PHP
All are maintained against the same shared behavioral corpus.
The goal isn't to support the largest number of scripts. Projects like Aksharamukha already do that extremely well.
The goal is deterministic, Unicode-aware transliteration where preserving the exact source matters.
GitHub:
https://github.com/jayeshmepani/...
Feedback, Unicode edge cases and weird transliteration samples are very welcome.
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About Lipimala : The Indic Script Converter on Product Hunt
“Exact-source Indic transliteration across 4 runtimes”
Lipimala : The Indic Script Converter was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. Exact round-trip Indic transliteration (lipimala): IAST/ISO-15919 ↔ Devanagari, Gujarati, plain English/Hunterian with Vedic accents. Feature-parity monorepo for Dart, JavaScript, Python, and PHP. - jayeshmepani/indic-script-converter
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