ISO 843
Encyclopedia
ISO 843 is a system for the transliteration
of Greek characters
into Latin characters
.
Exceptions:
Transliteration
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of Greek characters
Greek alphabet
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into Latin characters
Latin alphabet
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.
1997 edition
| Greek | Latin | Unicode | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | Dec | ||||||||
| A | a | ||||||||
| Á | á | 00C1 |
00E1 |
193 |
225 |
||||
| V | v | ||||||||
| G | g | ||||||||
| D | d | ||||||||
| E | e | ||||||||
| É | é | 00C9 |
00E9 |
201 |
233 |
||||
| Z | z | ||||||||
| Ī | ī | 012A |
012B |
298 |
299 |
||||
Ī+0301 |
ī+0301 |
Ī+769 |
ī+769 |
combining acute accent | |||||
| Th | th | ||||||||
| I | i | ||||||||
| Í | í | 00CD |
00ED |
205 |
237 |
||||
| Ï | ï | 00CF |
00EF |
207 |
239 |
||||
1E2F |
7727 |
||||||||
| K | k | ||||||||
| L | l | ||||||||
| M | m | ||||||||
| N | n | ||||||||
| X | x | ||||||||
| O | o | ||||||||
| Ó | ó | 00D3 |
00F3 |
211 |
243 |
||||
| P | p | ||||||||
| R | r | ||||||||
| , | S | s | |||||||
| T | t | ||||||||
| Y | y | ||||||||
| Ý | ý | 00DD |
00FD |
221 |
253 |
||||
| Ÿ | ÿ | 0178 |
00FF |
376 |
255 |
||||
ÿ+0301 |
ÿ+769 |
combining acute accent | |||||||
| F | f | ||||||||
| Ch | ch | ||||||||
| Ps | ps | ||||||||
| Ō | ō | 014C |
014D |
332 |
333 |
||||
1E52 |
1E53 |
7762 |
7763 |
||||||
Exceptions:
- double vowels are transliterated as au
- double vowels are transliterated as eu
- double vowels are transliterated as ou
See also
- List of ISO standards
- List of ISO transliterations
- Romanization of Greek
External links
- Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts -A collection of writing systems and transliteration tables, by Thomas T. Pedersen. PDF reference charts include ISO 843.
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