Script Encoding Initiative

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley


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The Script Encoding Initiative can now receive online donations. Even small donations are a big help to us in our attempt to secure grants for minority and historical script encoding. Please consider making a donation, however small, and help the effort to digitize the world's writing systems!

(December 20, 2006)

NEH, Google boost Internet coding project!

(December 21, 2004)

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a two-year grant to UC Berkeley for the Universal Scripts Project to support research and authoring of sixteen Unicode script proposals, and to further the project's more general effort of encouraging collaboration among scholars, users, and institutions in encoding scripts not yet in the Unicode Standard. The grant runs from January 2005 through December 2006 and will be led by Dr. Deborah Anderson. The Universal Scripts Project is a continuation of the Script Encoding Initiative established at UC Berkeley in 2002.

(For full announcement, click here)

(May 11, 2004)

An alphabetical list of scripts that need encoding is now available at the following URL: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dwanders/alpha-script-list.html, as well as here. This list includes links to the latest proposals. For a list of those scripts that are currently under discussion (and for which comments are urgently needed), please see ScriptsNeedInput.html.

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Last updated: April 12, 2006