<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:
Example 
<writingSystemDeclaration
    name='-//TEI P2: 1993//WSD ISO 8859-1//en'
    date='1993-06-01'>
    <language iso639=''>various</language>
    <script>Latin alphabet</script>
    <direction chars=LR lines=TB>
    <characters>
         <codedCharSet name='ISO 8859-1: 1992' authority='ISO'>
         <exceptions>
              <!-- ... -->
         </exceptions>
    </characters>
</writingSystemDeclaration>
Note

Tagsetauxiliary tag set for writing system declarations
Class
Filenameteiwsd2
Content: 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.
ParentswritingSystemDeclaration
ChildrenbaseWsd codedCharSet entitySet exceptions
Declaration
<!ELEMENT characters    - O  (codedCharSet*, baseWsd*, 
                             entitySet*, exceptions?)           >
<!ATTLIST characters         %a.global                          >
See 25.4.1 ; 25.1

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