The xNagari Scheme

9. _visarg

_visarg looks like a colon. Use 'H'.

Example: दुःख = duHkh

10. Om symbol ॐ

As we know, 'ॐ' is the Om symbol, while 'ओम' is a word.

According to xNagari, the word 'ओम' is transliterated as 'Om'.

For representing the 'ॐ' ('the Om Symbol'), we will write 'OmSymbol'.

11. _halant

It is called virama (viraamaa) in Unicode standard!

In DevaNagari, about 80% occurrence of consonants is in their full-form. As we know, the full-forms are with the inherent vowel 'a'; while the half-forms are without 'a' and are the pure consonants.

_halant (्) is used to remove the inherent vowel 'a'. So it converts the full-forms of the Nagari-consonants to corresponding half-forms. In other words, it is typed after a full form of a consonant to make it a half form.

Generally we don't need a Roman/Latin sign (or alphabet) to represent the 'halant'! We just take out the inherent vowel 'a'. But if you ever want a Roman/Latin sign to represent/show halant, use '-_' (a hyphen followed by underscore)

Rarely, we would like to explicitly show halant instead of taking out the inherent vowel 'a'! We may think we are trying to prevent an undesirable conjunct formation! Go thru following examples and decide for yourself whether you will ever need to show halant.

Ex-1: कम्‌प्यूटर ‍‍= kam-_pyooTar (bogus isn't it ;-)
'कंप्यूटर' (kaMpyooTar; not so bad :-) emphasize syllable boundaries correctly instead of 'कम्प्यूटर' (kampyooTar).

Ex-2: Another good example is the word 'Hindi' itself.

12. Avagraha

It looks like 'S'. You may use -a- to represent Avagraha '‌ऽ'. I may change it while extending xNagari for Sanskrit!

If you find any mistake, PLEASE let me know.