Nina,
That converter seems to work. If the pali characters come up
correctly when you visit this website:
http://studies.worldtipitaka.org/tipitaka/14S5/12/12.2/12.2.1
you should be able to do the same thing on your Mac.
1. You would mark and copy a piece of pali text from your web browser
window viewing the familiar pali sutta above
2. On another browser window, go to the converter page:
http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/utf8-to-latin-converter.php
3. That page has a section that you paste the text you copied from
worldtipitaka.org.
4. Once pasted, click on the "convert" button.
5. the top of the page now has a section called "coversion results",
which is the utf8 version of the HTML pali text you grabbed from the
other browser window.
6. Now you mark and copy the "conversion results" text, paste it into
your email program and it should work.

I don't know if you currently type things by hand into Velthius, but
worldtipitaka has the pali canon, and probably the commentaries,
abidhhama, vism., as well.

-Frank

On 1/29/2010 9:46 AM, frank wrote:
> Ok, last test seemed to work. this is a snippet from worldtipitaka ->
> converter:
> Evaṃ me sutaṃ— ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane
> anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
>
> and equivalent snippet from metta.lk -> converter:
> vaü me sutaü: ekaü samayaü bhagavà sà vatthiyaü viharati
> jetavane anà thapiõóikassa à rà me.
>
> same snippet from DPR -> converter:
> 234 . evaṃ T M V P me sutaṃ ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati
> jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
>
> cst4 -> converter:
> 2. Alagaddūpamasuttaṃ 234. Evaṃ me sutaṃ – ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā
> sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
>
>
>
> On 1/29/2010 9:12 AM, frank wrote:
>> passambhayaṃ cittasaṅkhāraṃ
>>
>> I'm testing out this website, which you cut and paste html, UTC-8
>> output comes out:
>> http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/utf8-to-latin-converter.php
>>
>> On 1/26/2010 6:46 AM, Nina van Gorkom wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Patrick,
>>> At last, this is perfect. Others do not show up correctly. I will not
>>> bother the list with my problems getting the Unicode on my Mac OS X,
>>> due to my clumsiness.
>>> Nina.
>>> Op 26-jan-2010, om 1:39 heeft Patrick Hall het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>> > Evaṃ me sutaṃ— ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā ukkaṭṭhāyaṃ
>>> > viharati
>>> > subhagavane sālarājamūle. Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi—
>>> > “bhikkhavo”ti. “Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato
>>> > paccassosuṃ. Bhagavā
>>> > etadavoca— “sabbadhammamūlapariyāyaṃ vo, bhikkhave,
>>> > desessāmi. Taṃ
>>> > suṇātha, sādhukaṃ manasi karotha, bhāsissāmī”ti.
>>> > “Evaṃ, bhante”ti kho
>>> > te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ. Bhagavā etadavoca—
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>



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