Samaritan Value in Script Unicode Property
Samaritan is a historical script used by the Samaritan community, primarily for liturgical and secular writings in Hebrew and Aramaic. Its Unicode character property value encompasses both the ancient Samaritan script and its modern cursive variant, preserving a distinct alphabetic system with 21 letters that derives from Paleo-Hebrew. This value enables digital encoding of Samaritan texts, including Torah manuscripts, inscriptions, and religious commentaries, while supporting correct rendering of its right-to-left direction and special diacritics for vowels and punctuation. By assigning a unique identity to these characters, it ensures faithful textual representation across platforms, aiding scholarly research and cultural heritage preservation.