Editing Pali (section)

===Text in ASCII===

The [[Devanagari transliteration#Velthuis|Velthuis scheme]] was originally developed in 1991 by Frans Velthuis for use with his "devnag" Devanāgarī font, designed for the [[TeX]] typesetting system. This system of representing Pali diacritical marks has been used in some websites and discussion lists. However, as the Web itself and email software slowly evolve towards the Unicode encoding standard, this system has become almost unnecessary and obsolete.

The following table compares various conventional renderings and shortcut key assignments:
{| class="wikitable"
! character
! ASCII Rendering
! Character Name
! Unicode Number
! Key Combination
! ALT Code
! HTML Code
|-
| align="center"|ā || aa || a with macron || U+0101 || Alt+A || – ||&amp;#257;
|-
| align="center"|ī || ii || i with macron || U+012B || Alt+I || – ||&amp;#299;
|-
| align="center"|ū || uu || u with macron || U+016B || Alt+U || – ||&amp;#363;
|-
| align="center"|ṃ || .m || m with dot below || U+1E43 || Alt+Ctrl+M || – ||&amp;#7745;
|-
| align="center"|ṇ || .n || n with dot under || U+1E47 || Alt+N || – ||&amp;#7751;
|-
| align="center"|ñ || ~n || n with tilde || U+00F1 || Alt+Ctrl+N || Alt+0241(NumPad) || &amp;ntilde;
|-
| align="center"|ṭ || .t || t with dot below || U+1E6D || Alt+T || – ||&amp;#7789;
|-
| align="center"|ḍ || .d || d with dot below || U+1E0D || Alt+D || – ||&amp;#7693;
|-
| align="center"|ṅ || "n || n with dot above || U+1E45 || Ctrl+N || – ||&amp;#7749;
|-
| align="center"|ḷ || .l || l with dot below || U+1E37 || Alt+L || – ||&amp;#7735;
|}