Indian Script Code for Information Interchange: Difference between revisions

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'''ISCII''' ('''I'''ndian '''S'''cript '''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 script-specific letter shape are expected to be selected by markup or font specification in rich text. For plain text documents the non-printing ATR character can be used to select script-specific letter shape (this mechanism is similiarsimilar to the use of [[escape sequence]s]).

By manually switching between scripts, an automatic [[transliteration]] is achieved.