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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’s Writing Systems |url=https://www.worldswritingsystems.org/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.worldswritingsystems.org}}</ref>

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With each new version of Unicode, new writing systems are added to the international character code. According to a statement by linguist Dr Deborah Anderson of UC Berkeley, there are over 100 writing systems that have not yet been included in Unicode.

According to a list of the project Missing Scripts by the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany, the ANRT Nancy, France and UC Berkeley, USA, there are 294 known writing systems of mankind according to the current state of research (January 2022). 131 of them have not yet been encoded in Unicode, i.e. cannot yet be used on a computer or mobile phone.

==See also==