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August 6th 2014: We have recently implemented a number of changes to ScriptSource. Here on the Home page the statistics (below) are now constantly updated, and include links which take you to the area of the site to which the statistic refers. We have enhanced the Search Results page to show results by type, so if, for instance, you are searching for a character, you can click on the "X was found in n characters" link to find what you're looking for.
We have improved the workflow for editing existing entries: the original entry is now visible whilst the edited version is going through the moderation process, so it never disappears from view (which used to happen). We have also removed some of the guide text to make pages look less cluttered; help is still available in the form of tooltips and "?" help icons.
Finally, we have added Unicode 7.0 data to our character pages.
July 10th 2013: We have added a new tab to writing system and character pages to show grapheme and phoneme information. Currently we only have data for a handful of languages, such as Spanish; if you can help us by providing grapheme and phoneme data for a language, please get in touch!
We have also improved the presentation of pages for retired language codes such as Wirangu (wiw).
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ScriptSource contains over 188000 pages, covering
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Cyrillic script - used for writing 111 languages, mostly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R - a split glyph where part is written above and part below the character it follows phonetically
Pattani Malay - spoken in Thailand and written with Jawi, a modified form of the Arabic script, and sometimes with the Thai script
Publishing and Typography - tools and ideas for publishing texts involving complex writing systems
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Recent Contributions & Discussions
Here are some of the most recent contributions to ScriptSource:
| Title | Type |
| Script Description [Tagbanwa] | text entry |
| Tagbanwa script | audiovisual entry |
| Elyssa alphabet (aeb-Latn) Virtual keyboard for Windows 10 | software entry |
| Unicode Status (SignFont Notation) | text entry |
| Unicode Status (Pau Cin Hau Syllabary) | text entry |
| Proposal to Change Script and Script_Extensions properties for U+A92E | academic paper |
| Encoding Nepal Lipi: an update of efforts | web page |
| Prachalit Lipi Lessons | web page |
| Proposal to Encode the Newar Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | academic paper |
| Nepal Lipi | web page |
Current Software Needs
Can you help meet a need? Offer to help. Here are several sample needs:
| Title | Category | Status |
| Addition of Bold and Italic face to Abyssinica | Font | Unmet |
| Modifiable Lao fonts in multiple styles | Font | In progress |
| Integrate Graphite into Harfbuzz | Software | In progress |
| Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for Miao script | Software | Unmet |
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Copyright © 2016 SIL International and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC-BY-SA) unless noted otherwise. Language data includes information from the Ethnologue. Script information partially from the ISO 15924 Registration Authority. Some character data from The Unicode Standard Character Database and locale data from the Common Locale Data Repository. Used by permission.