ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 9 Second edition 1995-02-15 Information and documentation - Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages Information et documentation - Translittération des caracteres cyrilliques en caractereslatins-Languesslavesetnonslaves iso Reference number ISO9:1995(E) No reproduction or networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 9:1995(E) Foreword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through IsO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for representedonthatcommittee.Internationalorganizations,governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO, also take part in the work. Iso collaborates closely with the international Electrotechnical Commission (lEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. fnternational Standard dIso9 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC46， Information and documentation, Subcommittee sc 2, Con- versionofwrittenlanguages. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (lsO 9:1986), of whichitconstitutesatechnicalrevision Annexes A to D of this International Standard are for information only. @ISO 1995 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publlcation may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. International Organization for Standardization Case postale 56 . CH-1211 Geneve 20 . Switzerland Printed in Switzerland ii No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO9:1995(E) @ISO Introduction This International Standard is one of a series of International Standards dealing with the conversion of systems of writing. The aim of this international communication of written messages in a form which permits the automatic transmission and reconstitution of these by men or machines. The system of conversion, in this case, must be univocal and entirely reversible. This means that no consideration should be given to phonetic and aesthetic matters nor to certain national customs: all these considerations are, indeed, ignored by the machine performing the function The adoption of this International Standard for international communication which may be different, on condition that it be compatible with the International Standard. The, system proposed herein should make this possible, and be acceptable for international use if the graphisms it creates are such that they may be converted automatically into the graphisms used in any national system, so long as it is strict. understanding of the system and is certain that it can be applied without ambiguity. The result obtained will not give a correct pronunciation of the original text in a person's own language; but it will serve as a means of a knowledge of the original ianguage to pronounce it correctly._Similarly. one can only pronounce correctly a text written in, for example, English or Polish,if one has aknowledge of English or Polish. The adoption of national standards compatible with this International Standard will permit the representation, in an international publication, of the morphemes of each language according to the customs of the country where it is spoken. It will be possible to simplify this representation in order to take into account the extent of the character sets available on different kinds of machine. ili No reproduclin or networking permited ithou license from IHs Not for Resale