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Section 3 · Standards

Ten scripts, one table

ISCII, Unicode and the standards fight.

An old printed character standard in a ring binder — FigureOne eight-bit table for ten scripts, held together by shared phonology rather than shared letterforms.

Everything in this section

01ISCII put ten Brahmi-derived scripts on one code tableA single eight-bit table for ten scripts was an elegant answer that Unicode then had to reconcile with everything else.
02What Unicode had to settleMerging a national standard into a universal one is a negotiation about which distinctions survive.
03What a state standardises when it standardises a keyboardA layout decision fixes what is easy to type for a generation.

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