Script (Unicode)

In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems.

The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, and the most recent version, Unicode 12.1, contains a repertoire of 137,994 characters covering 150 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets and emoji.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

In addition, a number of Latin-like characters are encoded in the Currency Symbols, Control Pictures, CJK Compatibility, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, and Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement blocks, but although they look like Latin letters they have the script property of common, and so do not belong to the Latin script in Unicode terms.

See Script (Unicode).

Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language, for example, Armenian.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages.

In Turkish, the Arabic script was used before the 20th century, but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century.

In Turkish, the Arabic script was used before the 20th century, but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century.

For a list of languages supported by each script see the list of languages by writing system.

More or less complementary to scripts are symbols and Unicode control characters.

However, the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics, so that many scripts include not only letters, but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and space characters.

However, Swedish includes the character ‘å’ (sometimes called a "Swedish O") while English has no such character.

"Writing system" is sometimes treated as a synonym for script.

A writing system may also cover more than one script, for example the Japanese writing system makes use of the Han, Hiragana and Katakana scripts.

A writing system may also cover more than one script, for example the Japanese writing system makes use of the Han, Hiragana and Katakana scripts.

A writing system may also cover more than one script, for example the Japanese writing system makes use of the Han, Hiragana and Katakana scripts.

The term complex system is sometimes used to describe those where the admixture makes classification problematic.

Some characters are considered titlecase letters for a few precomposed ligatures such as Dz (U+01F2).