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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 233‑3:1999), which has been technically revised.

The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows.

— Incorporated options for 3 “levels” of transliteration: strict, i.e. fully reversible (with and without vowels and other diacritical marks); and a modified but not fully reversible system, which, for example, distinguishes in transliteration when the characters و and ى function as vowels or as consonants, and, in the case of ى, other functions of the character.
— Added missing diacritical signs to the tables and corrected some errors elsewhere in the text. Added distinction in transliteration between ا and آ. Changed transliteration of خ (Table 1, row 9) from ‘ḵ’ to ‘x’. Changed transliteration of ض (Table 1, row 18) from ‘ż’ to ‘z̤’. Changed transliteration of tanvīn (Table 3, row 2) from ´´ to ã/ẽ/õ.
— Added notes explaining certain grammatical points; updated examples.
— Added hexadecimal character codes (ISO/IEC 10646 or Unicode) to all tables containing Persian characters and transliterations and therefore omitted Annexes B and D, Annex C thus becoming Annex B.
— Added the mandatory Terms and definitions clause and renumbered the subsequent clauses.

A list of all parts in the ISO 233 series can be found on the ISO website.

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BS ISO 233-3:2023

Information and documentation. Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters - Persian language. Transliteration

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Mar 2023