# Char --\> ISO 15924 "code" ( four-letter script codes / unicode )

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/char-iso-15924-code-four-letter-script-codes-unicode/73988
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, unicode, char
**Created:** [January 3, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/char-iso-15924-code-four-letter-script-codes-unicode/73988 "2022-01-03T18:35:24Z")
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### Author: ![ImreSamu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/imresamu/32/20677_2.png) [@ImreSamu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ImreSamu)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/char-iso-15924-code-four-letter-script-codes-unicode/73988/1 "2022-01-03T18:35:24Z")

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Any function/package for converting Julia `char` to “four-letter script codes”?

- [ISO 15924 Alphabetical Code List](https://unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html)
  - [https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924.txt](https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924.txt)

- [ISO 15924 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924)
- [Script (Unicode) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_(Unicode)#List_of_scripts_in_Unicode)

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### Author: ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/char-iso-15924-code-four-letter-script-codes-unicode/73988/2 "2022-01-03T20:32:10Z")

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Seems like a straightforward matter of parsing [https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/Scripts.txt](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/Scripts.txt) and applying [this mapping to ISO15924](http://unicode.org/reports/tr24/#Relation_To_ISO15924).

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### Author: ![ImreSamu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/imresamu/32/20677_2.png) [@ImreSamu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ImreSamu)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/char-iso-15924-code-four-letter-script-codes-unicode/73988/3 "2022-01-12T02:47:27Z")

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Thank you for your help;

So not so hard to implement so I have added to my 2022H1 todo list …
