This paper presents an opensource library for efficient lowlevel processing of ten ma jor South Asian Brahmic scripts. The library provides a flexible and extensible framework for supporting crucial operations on Brahmic scripts, such as NFC, visual normalization, reversible transliteration, and validity checks, implemented in Python within a finitestate transducer formalism. We survey some com mon Brahmic script issues that may adversely affect the performance of downstream NLP tasks, and provide the rationale for finitestate design and system implementation details.
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