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==Background==
The Brahmi-derived writing systems have similar structure<ref name="unicode"/>{{rp|p=462}}. So ISCII encodes letters with the same phonetic value at the same code point, overlaying the various scripts. For example, the ISCII codes 0xB3 0xDB represent [ki]. This will be rendered as കി in [[Malayalam]], कि in Devanagari, as ਕਿ in Gurmukhi, and as கி in Tamil. The writing system can be selected in rich text by markup or in plain text by means of the {{ctrl|ATR|internal=yes}} code described below.
One motivation for the use of a single encoding is the idea that it will allow easy [[transliteration]] from one writing system to another<ref name="unicode"/>{{rp|p=462}}. However, there are enough incompatibilities that this is not really a practical idea.
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