ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 259-2 Firstedition 1994-12-15 Corrected and reprinted 1995-07-15 Information and documentation : Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters Part 2: Simplified transliteration Information et documentation - Translittération des caracteres hebreux encaracteres latins Partie 2: Translitteration simplifiee ISO Reference number ISO259-2:1994(E) No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 259-2:1994(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through IsO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for whichatechnical committee hasbeenestablishedhastherighttobe representedonthatcommittee.Internationalorganizations,governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with isO, also take part in the work. IsO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 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 a vote. International Standard iSO 259-2 was prepared by Technical Committee ISo/TC 46,Information and documentation, Subcommittee Sc 2. Con- version of written languages. ISO 259 consists of the following parts: Part 1: Documentation Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latincharacters Part 2: Information and documentation Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters: Simplified transliteration Part 1 is currently published as ISO 259:1984. Annexes A and B of this part of ISO 259 are for information only. ISO1994 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. International Organization for Standardization Case Postale 56·CH-1211Geneve 20·Switzerland Printed in Switzerland ii CopyrightIntemational Oorganization for Standardization No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale @ISO ISO 259-2:1994(E) Introduction This part of ISO 259 is one of a series of International Standards, dealing with the conversion of systems of writing. The aim of this part of isO 259 and others in the series is to provide a means for international communi- cation of written messages in a form which permits the automatic trans- conversion, in this case, must be univocal and entirely reversible This means that no consideration should be given to phonetic and aes- thetic matters nor to certain national customs: all these considerations are, indeed, ignored by the machine performing the function. The adoption of this part of isO 259 for international communication of IsO 259. The system proposed herein should make this possible and be acceptable for international use if the graphisms it creates are such that tional system, so long as it is strict. This part of ISO 259 may be used by anyone who has a clear under- standing of the system and is certain that it can be applied without ambi- guity. 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 finding automatically the original graphism and thus allow anyone who has one can only pronounce correctly a text written in, for example, English or Polish, if one has a knowledge of English or Polish. The adoption of national standards compatible with this part of iso 259 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. ii No reproduction or networking permtted without license from IHS Not for Resale