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In [[Unicode]], a '''script''' is a collection of [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]]s and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more [[writing system]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unicode.org/glossary/|title=Glossary|website=unicode.org}}</ref> Some scripts support one and only one writing system and [[Written language|language]], for example, [[Armenian language|Armenian]]. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the [[Latin script in Unicode|Latin script]] supports [[English alphabet|English]], [[French alphabet|French]], [[German alphabet|German]], [[Italian alphabet|Italian]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts; for example, in [[Turkish language|Turkish]], the [[Ottoman Turkish alphabet|Arabic]] script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. More or less complementary to scripts are [[Unicode symbols|symbols]] and Unicode [[control character]]s.

The unified [[Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols|diacritical character]]s and unified [[General Punctuation|punctuation characters]] frequently have the "common" or "inherited" script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own [[punctuation]] and [[diacritic]]s, so that many scripts include not only letters but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and [[Space (punctuation)|space]] characters.

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== Missing scripts in Unicode ==

The project Missing Scripts—with contributors from the [[Mainz University of Applied Sciences]], the L’Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], and the [[University of California, Berkeley]]—has compiled a list of 131 scripts that have not yet been encoded in ''The Unicode Standard'', out of a total of 294 recognized scripts according to the current state of research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The World’sWorld's Writing Systems |url=https://www.worldswritingsystems.org/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.worldswritingsystems.org}}</ref>

==See also==

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==External links==

* [https://linguisticssei.berkeley.edu/sei/index.html Script Encoding Initiative], A project at UC Berkeley, USA, working to get more scripts included in the Unicode standard.

* [https://www.worldswritingsystems.org The World’s Writing Systems], An overview of all 294 known writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and their Unicode status.