General information on ISO 15924 templates

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Overview of ISO 15924 templates

Item	Publisher	Details	Example	Definition in template	Usage in page	Notes
Code	ISO 15924	Alpha-4	Arab	{{ISO 15924 code}}	{{ISO 15924/footer}}, /doc
Number	ISO 15924	Range 000–999	234	{{ISO 15924 number}}
Name	ISO 15924	Descriptive name		{{ISO 15924 name}}		ISO name can differ from Unicode (alias) name
Alias1	ISO 159242	Script name as used in Unicode	Arabic	{{ISO 15924/alias}}
Script direction	Unicode	Can vary per character, but all Unicode scripts (so far) have a single main direction	rtl	{{ISO 15924 direction}}
WP-name	en:Wikipedia	WP content page name for the script	Arabic script	{{ISO 15924/wp-name}}
WP-category	en:Wikipedia	WP category name for the script	Arabic script	{{ISO 15924/wp-category}}		Category:Arabic script
Script example character	en:Wikipedia	Example character in userboxes	ع	{{ISO 15924/script-example-character}}	User boxes	e.g. Category:User Arab
Overview & relation ISO – Unicode	en:Wikipedia			{{ISO 15924 script codes and Unicode}}
Redirect	en:Wikipedia	Redirect template		{{R from ISO 15924 code}}	Redirects
Overview	en:Wikipedia	Overview for templates check		{{ISO 15924/overview}}
Subpages	en:Wikipedia	list		Special:PrefixIndex/Template:ISO_15924
1 Property Value Alias. 2 Alias name is decided by Unicode consortium, but published in kindness by ISO 15924 in their data tables.

ISO updates

The ISO list is changed regularly, last years in June and December. Current list is completed As of 9 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011. This list has 160 defined codes (code, number, script name).

Note: when resolving red links or wrong links, edit {{ISO 15924/wp-name}} or {{ISO 15924/wp-category}}. That is where the connection between ISO code and Wikipedia names is made.

We here at Wikipedia do not and can not decide over ISO 15924. End of story.

Sources

• ISO 15924
• ISO values