The writing system that people use can actually tell you a lot about the person: where they are, what language(s) they speak, and so on. The two main standards for writing systems are ISO 15924 and Unicode. They are closely related to each other, but not every ISO 15924 entry has a corresponding Unicode script, e.g., the Afaka writing system (Afak).
I just released a new dataset to help people map from one to the other and identify writing systems that are mostly historic in interest, and therefore not interesting in a modern context.
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