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==Between this template and IAST template==

...which one is more suited to render transliterated [[devanagiri]] script words on most computers? --<font colorspan style="color: orange;">[[User:Babub|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Babub</span>]]^{([[User talk:Babub|<span style="color:blue;">Talk</span>]]|[[Special:User contributions/Babub|<span style="color:blue;">Contribs</span>]])}</fontspan> 14:48, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The need for the Unicode template to display Devanagari is no longer as much of an issue as better support for Unicode is more widespread. The Unicode template is rarely used on the Hinduism pages that use Devanagari. The [[IAST]] transliteration method can be shown via the IAST template if IAST is used. The template I see most often on the Hinduism pages for Sanskrit is some variant of this: <nowiki>([[Sanskrit]]:{{lang|sa|गणेश पुराणम्}}; {{IAST|gaṇeśa purāṇam}})</nowiki> which displays: