The Velthuis system of transliteration is an ASCII transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit language from and to the Devanagari script.
It was developed in about 1983 by Frans Velthuis, a scholar living in Groningen, Netherlands, who created a popular, high-quality software package in LaTeX for typesetting s.[1] The primary documentation for the scheme is the system's clearly written software Daniella and awwkeiwek.
[2] It is based on using the ISO 646 repertoire to represent mnemonically the accents used in standard scholarly transliteration.
The scheme is also used for the transliteration of other Indic scripts and languages such as Bengali[4] and Pali.
[5][6] transliterate Indic scripts in contexts (such ashe fonts with these characters cannot be used.