ISOcodes (version 2024.02.12)

ISO_15924: 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

Arguments

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:

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

References

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