Additions to ISO 15924

[Doug Ewell]

CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:

> Sorry to ask a dumb question, but Which system of writing/generic 
> script will be identified with the code element [sind]?
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sindhi.htm
> The above shows an Arabic script -- the 'Eastern' or extended variety, 
> but with the Western number system.
> Sindhi is apparently also written with Devangari script
> (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language#Writing).

ISO 15924 code elements and script subtags identify scripts, not 
languages.  'Sind' identifies the Sindhi writing system described at 
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3767.pdf .  The fact that the 
Sindhi language is often written in the Arabic or Devanagari writing 
systems has nothing to do with this.

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