'''ISCII''' ('''I'''ndian '''S'''tandardcript '''C'''ode for '''I'''nformation '''I'''nterchange) is a coding scheme for representing various [[Indic script]]s. Most of those scripts are rather similar in structure, but have different letter shapes. So ISCII tries to encode the logical structure of the [[Indic script]]s, while using [[escape sequence]]s to switch between language-specific letter shapes.
ISCII is a fixed-length 8-bit encoding. The lower 128 codepoints are plain [[ASCII]], the upper 128 codepoints are ISCII-specific.
