Google translate nowdoing Sanskrit.

[Peter Flass]

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.

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

[Peter Flass]

Post by Ahem A Rivet's Shot
On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

[Dan Espen]

Post by Peter Flass

Post by Ahem A Rivet's Shot
On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

[Andreas Kohlbach]

Post by Dan Espen

Post by Peter Flass

Post by Ahem A Rivet's Shot
On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

Post by Peter Flass
“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" (?).

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Sun, 15 May 2022 20:41:15 -0400

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
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.

[maus]

Post by Peter Flass

Post by Ahem A Rivet's Shot
On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Sat, 14 May 2022 21:29:15 +0100

Post by Ahem A Rivet's Shot
On Sat, 14 May 2022 10:25:32 -0700

Post by Peter Flass
“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.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Peter Flass
द्रुतकृष्णः शृगालः आलस्यस्य श्वः पृष्ठस्य उपरि कूर्दितवान्

Readable in Thunderbird on Win10

[John Levine]

“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.”
and got: (if this gets through and anyone can read it)
â€œà€Šà¥à€°à¥à€€à€•à¥ƒà€·à¥à€£à€ƒ à€¶à¥ƒà€—à€Ÿà€²à€ƒ à€†à€²à€žà¥à€¯à€žà¥à€¯ à€¶à¥à€µà€ƒ à€ªà¥ƒà€·à¥à€ à€žà¥à€¯ à€‰à€ªà€°à€¿ à€•à¥‚à€°à¥à€Šà€¿à€€à€µà€Ÿà€šà¥â€

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.