| ISO_15924 {ISOcodes} | R Documentation |
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes for the representation of names of scripts (writing systems, “a set of graphic characters used for the written form of one or more languages”).
data("ISO_15924")
ISO_15924 is a data frame with variables
Alpha_4NumericNamePVADateDate object with the date the
script was registered.The following number ranges are used for the numeric codes:
| 000-099 | Hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts |
| 100-199 | Right-to-left alphabetic scripts |
| 200-299 | Left-to-right alphabetic scripts |
| 300-399 | Alphasyllabic scripts |
| 400-499 | Syllabic scripts |
| 500-599 | Ideographic scripts |
| 600-699 | Undeciphered scripts |
| 700-899 | (unassigned) |
| 900-999 | Private use, aliases, special codes |
http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924