WritingScript, a standard type

A writing system, written as its four-letter code: Latn, Jpan.

Use it when the script matters separately from the language, such as Serbian in Latin or Cyrillic, or choosing a font. Most apps want Language or Locale.

Shape

One of 224 values, such as WritingScript.adlm, written Adlm. Details has them.

Example

example

WritingScript.latn

text.parse(raw, as: WritingScript) reads one from text that comes from outside. Text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as latin, Lat or Latnn.

Good to know

The value's name is lower case, WritingScript.latn, but it is written Latn.
== tells you whether two are the same. < and list.sort_by don't take it.

In JSON

A string, in a request, a response or json.write:

json

"Jpan""Latn""Zyyy"

Details

Text form, storage, how it is shown, and operations

WritingScript is in the group Places, and has been in Jadpo since 0.1.0.

Every value

Every value, each after WritingScript., with how it is written:

adlm (Adlm), afak (Afak), aghb (Aghb), ahom (Ahom), arab (Arab), aran (Aran), armi (Armi), armn (Armn), avst (Avst), bali (Bali), bamu (Bamu), bass (Bass), batk (Batk), beng (Beng), berf (Berf), bhks (Bhks), blis (Blis), bopo (Bopo), brah (Brah), brai (Brai), bugi (Bugi), buhd (Buhd), cakm (Cakm), cans (Cans), cari (Cari), cham (Cham), cher (Cher), chis (Chis), chrs (Chrs), cirt (Cirt), copt (Copt), cpmn (Cpmn), cprt (Cprt), cyrl (Cyrl), cyrs (Cyrs), deva (Deva), diak (Diak), dogr (Dogr), dsrt (Dsrt), dupl (Dupl), egyd (Egyd), egyh (Egyh), egyp (Egyp), elba (Elba), elym (Elym), ethi (Ethi), gara (Gara), geok (Geok), geor (Geor), glag (Glag), gong (Gong), gonm (Gonm), goth (Goth), gran (Gran), grek (Grek), gujr (Gujr), gukh (Gukh), guru (Guru), hanb (Hanb), hang (Hang), hani (Hani), hano (Hano), hans (Hans), hant (Hant), hatr (Hatr), hebr (Hebr), hira (Hira), hluw (Hluw), hmng (Hmng), hmnp (Hmnp), hntl (Hntl), hrkt (Hrkt), hung (Hung), inds (Inds), ital (Ital), jamo (Jamo), java (Java), jpan (Jpan), jurc (Jurc), kali (Kali), kana (Kana), kawi (Kawi), khar (Khar), khmr (Khmr), khoj (Khoj), kitl (Kitl), kits (Kits), knda (Knda), kore (Kore), kpel (Kpel), krai (Krai), kthi (Kthi), lana (Lana), laoo (Laoo), latf (Latf), latg (Latg), latn (Latn), leke (Leke), lepc (Lepc), limb (Limb), lina (Lina), linb (Linb), lisu (Lisu), loma (Loma), lyci (Lyci), lydi (Lydi), mahj (Mahj), maka (Maka), mand (Mand), mani (Mani), marc (Marc), maya (Maya), medf (Medf), mend (Mend), merc (Merc), mero (Mero), mlym (Mlym), modi (Modi), mong (Mong), moon (Moon), mroo (Mroo), mtei (Mtei), mult (Mult), mymr (Mymr), nagm (Nagm), nand (Nand), narb (Narb), nbat (Nbat), newa (Newa), nkdb (Nkdb), nkgb (Nkgb), nkoo (Nkoo), nshu (Nshu), ogam (Ogam), olck (Olck), onao (Onao), orkh (Orkh), orya (Orya), osge (Osge), osma (Osma), ougr (Ougr), palm (Palm), pauc (Pauc), pcun (Pcun), pelm (Pelm), perm (Perm), phag (Phag), phli (Phli), phlp (Phlp), phlv (Phlv), phnx (Phnx), piqd (Piqd), plrd (Plrd), prti (Prti), psin (Psin), ranj (Ranj), rjng (Rjng), rohg (Rohg), roro (Roro), runr (Runr), samr (Samr), sara (Sara), sarb (Sarb), saur (Saur), seal (Seal), sgnw (Sgnw), shaw (Shaw), shrd (Shrd), shui (Shui), sidd (Sidd), sidt (Sidt), sind (Sind), sinh (Sinh), sogd (Sogd), sogo (Sogo), sora (Sora), soyo (Soyo), sund (Sund), sunu (Sunu), sylo (Sylo), syrc (Syrc), syre (Syre), syrj (Syrj), syrn (Syrn), tagb (Tagb), takr (Takr), tale (Tale), talu (Talu), taml (Taml), tang (Tang), tavt (Tavt), tayo (Tayo), telu (Telu), teng (Teng), tfng (Tfng), tglg (Tglg), thaa (Thaa), thai (Thai), tibt (Tibt), tirh (Tirh), tnsa (Tnsa), todr (Todr), tols (Tols), toto (Toto), tutg (Tutg), ugar (Ugar), vaii (Vaii), visp (Visp), vith (Vith), wara (Wara), wcho (Wcho), wole (Wole), xpeo (Xpeo), xsux (Xsux), yezi (Yezi), yiii (Yiii), zanb (Zanb), zinh (Zinh), zmth (Zmth), zsye (Zsye), zsym (Zsym), zxxx (Zxxx), zyyy (Zyyy), zzzz (Zzzz).

Text form

text.from writes one standard text form, the same form text.parse reads back: Jpan, Latn and Zyyy.

How it is stored

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type text. Latn is stored as 'Latn'.

How it is shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Value	Shown
`Jpan`	`Japanese`
`Latn`	`Latin`
`Zyyy`	`Common`

Operations

It also takes text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. How every standard type behaves says how they work.