ISO_15924: ISO 15924 Script Codes

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ISO 15924 Script Codes

Description

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes for the representation of names of scripts (writing systems, “a set of graphic characters used for the written form of one or more languages”).

Usage

ISO_15924

Format

ISO_15924 is a data frame with variables

Alpha_4

a character vector with the 4-letter (alpha-4) ISO 15924 script codes.

Numeric

a character vector with numeric script codes providing some measure of mnemonicity.

Name

a character vector with the (English) script names.

PVA

a character vector with the Property Value Alias defined by Unicode (ISO 10646) (if available).

Date

a Date object with the date the script was registered.

Details

The following number ranges are used for the numeric codes:

000-099	Hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts
100-199	Right-to-left alphabetic scripts
200-299	Left-to-right alphabetic scripts
300-399	Alphasyllabic scripts
400-499	Syllabic scripts
500-599	Ideographic scripts
600-699	Undeciphered scripts
700-899	(unassigned)
900-999	Private use, aliases, special codes

Source

https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924

ISOcodes documentation built on June 8, 2025, 1:18 p.m.