IEG diestruck (non-Sanskrit headwords)

[drdhaval2785]

IEG diestruck is an English word Whether to give some additional markup to non-Sanskrit headword is a debatable issue.

[Andhrabharati]

Good point raised.

Otherwise it gives such an incomprehensible text as दिएस्त्रुच्क् in display.

This is not a Sanskrit word

There are quite many non-Sanskrit words in this work, which should be treated by their nativeness.

And the url interface could also have "Head word" and "Text (Body) word" input options [instead of the present "Sanskrit word" and "Text word" options], either of which could be any language/script.

[gasyoun]

Whether to give some additional markup to non-Sanskrit headword is a debatable issue

Makes sense. Otherwise we get monster output for rare words.

[funderburkjim]

A lot of code might be involved in handling this anomaly in a better way.

First, determine scope of problem by getting a list of non-sanskrit headwords in IEG.

Also, are there any other dictionaries with the anomaly?

[Andhrabharati]

@funderburkjim

I just did a quick workout with the IEG text.

There are 3 English words (in single quotes) and ~350 South Indian words out of 7096 <L> entries, that do not fit SLP1 encoding. ------------ The <L> count is not 7097, as <L>58 is just a part (<P>) of <L>57, but wrongly marked as another entry.

[Andhrabharati]

And there are 216 Grouped HW entries in the IEG text that could be split as sep. entries (with group info) as in MW etc., resulting in 236 addl. entries.

[Andhrabharati]

Coming to the 2nd query, probably BHS (supposed to be with some Pali and Prakrit words, which have short e & o vowels that are absent in Sanskrit and thus in SLP1) could be another candidate with this non-Skt words anomaly. [Need to check this!!]

[Andhrabharati]

Seen that there are some 'foreign' language, such as Greek and Persian, entries also that defy SLP1 encoding in this IEG text.

[Andhrabharati]

Also, are there any other dictionaries with the anomaly?

@funderburkjim PE seems to be one of such works- https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/GreekInSanskrit/issues/36#issuecomment-993539973

@drdhaval2785 also had identified this in a different context sometime back- https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections/issues/70#issue-957224860