R: ISO 15924 Script Codes

ISO_15924 {ISOcodes} | R Documentation

## 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

http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/

### References

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

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