విక్షనరీ:Scripts

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Scripts, or writing systems, are groups of characters.

Conventions

In Wiktionary, each script is recognized by a code and a name. The script codes are usually, but not always, named after the ISO 19524 codes[1].

{{Arab}}: Arabic script
{{Cyrl}}: Cyrillic script
{{Latn}}: Latin script

Some script codes are named after a combination of script and code.

{{fa-Arab}}: Arabic script (of Persian language)
{{ks-Arab}}: Arabic script (of Kashmiri language)
{{ota-Arab}}: Arabic script (of Ottoman Turkish language)
{{pa-Arab}}: Arabic script (of Punjabi language)
{{pjt-Latn}}: Latin script (of Pitjantjatjara language)
{{ur-Arab}}: Arabic script (of Urdu language)

There are also some exceptions:

{{None}}: Meant for no formatting at all.
{{unicode}}: Meant for characters only found in specialized fonts
{{Latinx}}: Meant for characters in the Latin Extended-B Unicode block, including Old English letters.
{{polytonic}}: Meant for Ancient (as opposed to modern) Greek text.
{{musical}}: Meant for musical notation symbols.
{{Xyzy}}: An internal template (not to be used by on entries) used to mark default scripts for common languages.

Functions

These scripts serve a number of functions.

Organization

According to our CFI, Wiktionary, as a dictionary of all words in all languages, includes definitions for individual characters. This naturally involves which scripts they take part of; this knowledge also helps to organize them, by means of categorization and further explanation in appendices.

A list of language scripts per language is at {{langscript}} and a list of language names per script is at {{script}}.

Formatting

Additionally, pieces of text may be formatted according to each script, by HTML spans wrapped around them. In theory, browsers should handle formatting automatically, but in practice, they do not do a good job. Specifically, it may be done through these approaches, which have their advantages:

Applying an HTML class attribute, which can be used to format the text using a Wiktionary CSS style sheet, a registered editor's user style sheet, or a web browser's user style sheet.
Changing text-direction, font-family, font-size formatting to improve display in some or all web browsers. Formatting may be applied in an inline style attribute, or by referring to a class in the central style sheet at MediaWiki:Common.css.

Templates

For the purpose of formatting text, there are the script templates which serve as wrappers for predetermined formatting conventions. Some of these templates support certain values of a face= parameter, specifically, some subset of { term, ital, head, bold }. This allows italic and bold effects to be implemented in a readable way, or not to implemented at all if they are inappropriate for a given script.

They may be used in any of the following ways.

By using the sc= parameter of various templates, such as {{term}}, {{t}}, {{infl}} and {{form of}}:
{{term|Δ|sc=Grek}}

{{infl|mul|symbol|sc=Grek}}
By calling the script template directly, which is a rarer option:
{{Grek|Δ}}
Automatically, simply by specifying the language code but not the script.
{{term|palabra|lang=es}} (Spanish naturally uses the Latin script, so no additional parameter is necessary)

{{infl|es|noun}} (same as above)

{{es-noun}} (same as above, notably related to a template only used for Spanish)

{{term|jikan|lang=ja|sc=Latn}} (in this example, however, the Latin script is used instead of the Japanese script)

Templates exist for all ISO 15924 codes except: Blis, Brah, Cirt, Egyd, Egyh, Geok, Gran, Hmng, Hung, Inds, Latg, Lina, Mani, Maya, Moon, Nkgb, Perm, Phlp, Phlv, Roro, Sara, Syre, Syrj, Syrn, Teng, Visp, Wara, Zinh, Zxxx, Zyyy, Zzzz (nor any of the reserved codes).

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