Script - Chisoi

Chisoi is a script value used in digital text encoding to represent the historical Brahmi-derived writing system of the Chisoi people, primarily attested in inscriptions from ancient Central Asia, particularly around the Tarim Basin. It is characterized by a distinct set of glyph forms that evolved from the Gupta script, with features like angular strokes and specific vowel markers that differentiate it from related scripts such as Tokharian or Kuchean. In practice, Chisoi is assigned to characters that encode this now-extinct script, allowing scholars to digitally preserve and analyze texts that would otherwise require manual transcription. The value supports accurate rendering and searching of these rare documents, though its usage is limited due to the scarcity of surviving manuscripts and the script’s historical obscurity.