Those capital and lower case Sanskrit texts - What's it all about?

this might be the wrong place, wrong time, but it is in questions and answers, and the title name is related to the question, atleast it looks like it.

What is up with this type of type? example below............

The original list of Chaitanya Caritamrita reads as follows:

1) kRpAlu - Merciful.
2) akRta-droha - Non-violent.
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25) dakSa - Expert.
26) maunI - Silent.

Is the letters both capital and lower case, somehow showing the translation sounds?

And what does the word "didi" mean?

Yes. Since Internet browsers make use of fonts produced by Microsoft, who haven't provided any fonts that can show diacritics, it has become necessary to type Sanskrit words in a different way in order to show the proper pronunciation. The style used above is referred to as the Harvard-Kyoto convention. Another notation that you might see used in other VedAntic forums is known as 'ITRANS'.


"Sister".

See this article for an explanation of Harvard-Kyoto.

To illustrate, below you'll find the most common H-K letters and the corresponding diacritic marks.

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