Proposal to add Roman transliteration schemes to ISO 15924.

Markus Scherer via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Mon Dec 2 11:09:02 CST 2019


On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:42 AM Roozbeh Pournader via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> You don't need an ISO 15924 script code. You need to think in terms of BCP
> 47. Sanskrit in Latin would be sa-Latn.
>

Right!

Now, if you want to distinguish the different transcription systems for
> writing Sanskrit in Latin, you can apply to registry a BCP 47 variant.
> There are also BCP 47 extension T, which may also be useful to you:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6497
>

And that extension is administered by Unicode, with documentation and data
here:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35.html#t_Extension

Best regards,
markus
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