GOST 7.79-2000
Cyrillic transliteration standard / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GOST 7.79-2000 (Система стандартов по информации, библиотечному и издательскому делу. Правила транслитерации кирилловского письма латинским алфавитом) is a standard for transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin script for use on the internet, for speakers of languages that are normally written in Cyrillic script but who do not have access to a Cyrillic keyboard. It came into effect 2002-07-01.[1]
GOST 7.79-2000 contains two transliteration tables.
- System A
- one Cyrillic character to one Latin character, some with diacritics – identical to ISO 9:1995
- System B
- one Cyrillic character to one or many Latin characters without combining diacritics. Letters are distinguished with a spacing diacritic, which for online use is the ASCII grave accent (i.e., `) but when used on Moscow street signs may instead be the traditional prime (i.e., ʹ), depending on who printed the sign.