ISO 15924

ISO 15924, Codes for the representation of names of scripts, is an <a href="/facts/ISO_standard/IacYR7Yg">international standard</a> defining codes for <a href="/facts/Writing_systems/ABG251A0">writing systems</a> or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used for the written form of one or more languages"). Each script is given both a four-letter code and a numeric code.
Where possible the codes are derived from <a href="/facts/ISO_639-2/uIkuka2a">ISO 639-2</a>, where the name of a script and the name of a language using the script are identical (example: <a href="/facts/Gujarati_script/zbJCS2Rm">Gujarātī</a> ISO 639 guj, ISO 15924 Gujr). Preference is given to the 639-2 Bibliographical codes, which is different from the otherwise often preferred use of the Terminological codes.
4-letter ISO 15924 codes are incorporated into the <a href="/facts/IANA_Language_Subtag_Registry/b6MlP6zQ">IANA Language Subtag Registry</a> for <a href="/facts/IETF_language_tag/r7lQQ15A">IETF language tags</a> and so can be used in file formats that make use of such language tags. For example, they can be used in <a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">HTML</a> and <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> to help <a href="/facts/Web_browser/2pfyymLs">Web browsers</a> determine which <a href="/facts/Typeface/It41hIjl">typeface</a> to use for foreign text. This way one could differentiate, for example, between <a href="/facts/Serbian_language/quNDpTCd">Serbian</a> written in the <a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">Cyrillic</a> (sr-Cyrl) or <a href="/facts/Latin_script/7EWeJjUV">Latin</a> (sr-Latn) script, or mark <a href="/facts/Romanization/a4fl8fee">romanized</a> or <a href="/facts/Transliterated/1eemsW6o">transliterated</a> text as such.

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