From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2010 - 11:31:20 CDT
Andreas Prilop wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> It is of course transliteration standards that should say something
>> normative about the matter. As far as I can remember, the
>> authoritative versions of the relevant standards are the paper
>> publications, which do no identify characters by Unicode numbers,
>> just as ink on paper.
>
> ISO standards have always identified the characters used for
> transliteration by reference to ISO 5426.
Sorry, my memory did not serve me well. I think you have previously referred
to such identifications in some discussions. I guess I had forgotten this
due to my frustration: having tried to find definitive information on this,
I got confused and found contradictions.
> I believe there are mapping tables from ISO 5426, DIN 31624, ANSI
> Z39.47 to Unicode.
Apparently there are _several_ mapping tables, with e.g. four (or more?)
alternative mappings for PRIME, and whatever their status might be, they
aren't part of a transliteration standard that refers to, say, ISO 5426.
-- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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