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Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII)

Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange. Similar to ASCII , but for Indian languages.

The most established encoding is called ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) which was created in 1988. It is an ingenious encoding scheme that takes advantage of the common linguistic threads of Indic scripts. The Unicode Standard and its ISO counterpart (ISO/IEC 10646) were created as a global standard to address the needs of most major languages. When Unicode was extended to Indic languages, it drew from the ISCII standard.

ISCII Chart

position		Character	position		Character
Hex	Dec	Name	Hex	Dec	Name
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD BE BF C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF	161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207	Vowel-modifier Chandrabindu Vowel-modifier Anuswar Vowel-modifier Visarg Vowel A Vowel AA Vowel I Vowel II Vowel U Vowel UU Vowel RI Vowel E (southern scripts) Vowel EY Vowel AI Vowel AYE (Devanagari script) Vowel O (southern scripts) Vowel OW Vowel AU Vowel AWE (Devanagari script) Consonant KA Consonant KHA Consonant GA Consonant GHA Consonant NGA Consonant CHA Consonant CHHA Consonant JA Consonant JHA Consonant JNA Consonant Hard TA Consonant Hard THA Consonant Hard DA Consonant Hard DHA Consonant Hard NA Consonant Soft TA Consonant Soft THA Consonant Soft DA Consonant Soft DHA Consonant Soft NA Consonant NA (tamil) Consonant PA Consonant PHA Consonant BA Consonant BHA Consonant MA Consonant YA Consonant JYA (bengali,assamese,oriya) Consonant RA	D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF	208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255	Consonant Hard RA (southern scripts) Consonant LA Consonant Hard LA Consonant ZHA (Tamil & Malayalam) Consonant VA Consonant SHA Consonant Hard SHA Consonant SA Consonant HA Consonant invisible Vowel sign AA Vowel sign I Vowel sign II Vowel sign U Vowel sign UU Vowel sign RI Vowel sign E (southern scripts) Vowel sign EY Vowel sign AI Vowel sign AYE (Devanagari script) Vowel sign O (southern scripts) Vowel sign OW Vowel sign AU Vowel sign AWE (Devanagari script) Vowel omission sign (Halant) Diacritic sign (Nukta) Full Stop (Viram, northern scripts) This position shall not be used This position shall not be used This position shall not be used This position shall not be used Attribute code Extension code Digit 0 Digit 1 Digit 2 Digit 3 Digit 4 Digit 5 Digit 6 Digit 7 Digit 8 Digit 9 This position shall not be used This position shall not be used This position shall not be used This position shall not be used This position shall not be used