Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<characters>

<characters> contains a specification of the characters used in a particular writing system to write a particular language, and of how those characters are represented in electronic form.
Attributes Global attributes only
Example 
<writingSystemDeclaration date='1993-06-01'
                          name='-//TEI P2: 1993//WSD ISO 8859-1//en'>
   <language iso639=''>various</language>
   <direction chars="LR" lines="TB"/>
   <characters>
       <codedCharSet name="ISO 8859-1: 1992" authority="ISO"/>
       <exceptions>
           <!-- ... -->
       </exceptions>
   </characters>
</writingSystemDeclaration>
Module Declared in file teiwsd2; Auxiliary tag set for Writing System Declarations
Data Description May contain a series of base components (coded character sets, writing system declarations, and entity sets) followed by a set of exceptions to define differences from the base components.
May contain baseWsd codedCharSet entitySet exceptions
May occur within
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT characters %om.RO;  ( codedCharSet*, baseWsd*,
                                entitySet*, exceptions? ) > 
<!ATTLIST characters  
      %a.global;>
See further 25.4.1 Base Components of the WSD; 25.1 Overall Structure of Writing System Declaration

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