itrans | Convert encoded text to Unicode output | Data Manipulation library

Preface: I know nothing of devanagari, so you will have to bear with me.

First, consider your function. It can return two things, character or None (print just outputs something, it doesn't actually return a value). That makes your first output example originate from the print function, not Python evaluating your last statement.

Then, when you consider your second test string, it will see that there's some Devanagari text and just return the string back. What you have to do, if this transliteration works as I think it does, is to apply this function to every word in your text.

I modified your function to: