Template:Indic encoding/doc

Usage
This template is used to display the computer encodings of characters, utilizing the template, for articles in category:Indic letters. The templates displays the characters in a predictable, standard order, organized roughly by family relation between scripts and other traits (such as inclusion in the ISCII standard). It is used in conjunction with to provide consistent and comprehensive information about cognate letters from different Indic scripts. It uses the same named parameters as.

Additional codepoints
Occasionally, there may be some cases where the cognate characters exceeds the number of codepoints set aside in this template. The number of possible codepoints is limited in order to keep the width of the display manageable. To bypass this limitation, you will need to use the template directly directly after  as follows:

You can use the  parameter to set the size and alignment of subscript/subjoined characters, or other characters that might display in plain text outside the normal area in the charmap. Section notes parameters can be used to direct readers from the expected location of a codepoint to the extra charmaps, and a link to the bottom of the standard table can be included in the note using the hardcoded anchor at.

Parameters
This template takes two parameters to define a character. The first parameter is required, and signifies the Unicode codepoint for the character. The second, optional parameter allows you to specify an image file to display the character instead of showing it in plain text. Image parameters take the bare filename, as the template takes care of sizing and formatting images.

The Khmer, Burmese, Chakma, Tai Tham, Thai, Lao and Tai Viet scripts may have two characters derived from a single origin, and thus there are four parameters for those scripts. New Tai Lue can have three characters derived from a single origin, and thus there are six characters for that script. Tibetan has an additional codepoint for the subjoined form of a consonant, and this template defines four parameters for both forms. The Brahmi script has parameters for specifying image files in three major stylistic periods - Ashoka, Kushana, and Gupta Brahmi - which all share the same codepoint. Finally, there is one parameter for specifying the ISCII code point of a character for the 9 scripts inherited into Unicode from that standard (Unicode unified Bengali and Assamese from ISCII).