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{{short description|Coding scheme for Indian writing systems}}

{{Contains special characters|Indic}}

'''Indian Script Code for Information Interchange''' ('''ISCII''') is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of [[India]]. It encodes the main [[Indic script]]s and a Roman transliteration. The supported scripts are: [[AssameseEastern alphabetNagari|Assamese]], [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali (Bangla)Bengali–Assamese]], [[Devanagari]], [[Gujarāti script|Gujarati]], [[Gurmukhi]], [[Kannada script|Kannada]], [[Malayalam script|Malayalam]], [[Oriya script|Oriya]], [[Tamil script|Tamil]], and [[Telugu script|Telugu]]. ISCII does not encode the writing systems of India that are based on [[Persian language|Persian]], but its writing system switching codes nonetheless provide for [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Urdu]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Pashto language|Pashto]] and [[Arabic]]. The Persian-based writing systems were subsequently encoded in the [[Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange|PASCII]] encoding.

ISCII has not been widely used outside certain government institutions, although a variant without the {{ctrl|ATR|internal=yes}} mechanism was used on [[classic Mac OS]],<ref name="appledevanagari"/> and it has now been rendered largely obsolete by [[Unicode]]. Unicode uses a separate block for each Indic writing system, and largely preserves the ISCII layout within each block.