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DIN 91379
The DIN standard DIN 91379: "Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe, with CD-ROM" defines a normative subset of Unicode Latin characters, sequences of base characters and diacritic signs, and special characters for use in names of persons, legal entities, products, addresses etc. The standard defines a normative mapping of Latin letters to base letters A-Z as an extension of the recommendations of ICAO.
In the informative part of the standard, a set of extended characters is defined, which includes Greek and Cyrillic letters as well as other special characters for names of legal entities and product names.
The subset supports all official languages of European Union countries as well as the official languages of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and also the German minority languages.
To support other languages that do not use the Latin writing system, the set of normative letters contains all combinations of Latin letters with diacritical marks that are necessary for the transliteration of names into the Latin writing system according to the ISO standards relevant at the time of publication.
The standard supports the necessary characters for entries in the civil status registers. According to the Law on the Convention of September 13, 1973 on the recording of surnames and forenames in civil status registers information in Latin characters is to be taken over true to the letter with all diacritic marks and information in other characters is to be reproduced by transliteration, if possible in accordance with ISO standards.
This support is not complete; for non-European languages that use Latin script, for example Vietnamese is supported, but not, for example, the Togo national languages Ewe (ɖ, ɛ, ƒ, ɣ, ɔ, ʋ are missing) and Kabiye (ɖ, ɛ, ɣ, ɩ, ɔ, ʊ are missing), the South African official language Tshivenda (ḓ, ḽ, ṋ, ṱ are missing), the Namibian national language Khoekhoegowab (the click sound letters ǀ, ǁ, ǃ, ǂ are missing), or Tongan (the fakauʻa is missing). Although the characters mentioned in brackets appear in personal names in the respective countries, the standard does not mention any transliteration rules or mapping rules for writing names in basic Latin letters.
In addition to the normative characters the standard defines subsets of extended characters that contain modern Greek letters for Greece and Cyprus, Cyrillic letters for Bulgaria and special characters for names of products and legal entities.
Conforming applications may support additional characters, however for interface agreements or registers it may be appropriate to support only a final subset of characters and sequences based on this standard.
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DIN 91379
The DIN standard DIN 91379: "Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe, with CD-ROM" defines a normative subset of Unicode Latin characters, sequences of base characters and diacritic signs, and special characters for use in names of persons, legal entities, products, addresses etc. The standard defines a normative mapping of Latin letters to base letters A-Z as an extension of the recommendations of ICAO.
In the informative part of the standard, a set of extended characters is defined, which includes Greek and Cyrillic letters as well as other special characters for names of legal entities and product names.
The subset supports all official languages of European Union countries as well as the official languages of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and also the German minority languages.
To support other languages that do not use the Latin writing system, the set of normative letters contains all combinations of Latin letters with diacritical marks that are necessary for the transliteration of names into the Latin writing system according to the ISO standards relevant at the time of publication.
The standard supports the necessary characters for entries in the civil status registers. According to the Law on the Convention of September 13, 1973 on the recording of surnames and forenames in civil status registers information in Latin characters is to be taken over true to the letter with all diacritic marks and information in other characters is to be reproduced by transliteration, if possible in accordance with ISO standards.
This support is not complete; for non-European languages that use Latin script, for example Vietnamese is supported, but not, for example, the Togo national languages Ewe (ɖ, ɛ, ƒ, ɣ, ɔ, ʋ are missing) and Kabiye (ɖ, ɛ, ɣ, ɩ, ɔ, ʊ are missing), the South African official language Tshivenda (ḓ, ḽ, ṋ, ṱ are missing), the Namibian national language Khoekhoegowab (the click sound letters ǀ, ǁ, ǃ, ǂ are missing), or Tongan (the fakauʻa is missing). Although the characters mentioned in brackets appear in personal names in the respective countries, the standard does not mention any transliteration rules or mapping rules for writing names in basic Latin letters.
In addition to the normative characters the standard defines subsets of extended characters that contain modern Greek letters for Greece and Cyprus, Cyrillic letters for Bulgaria and special characters for names of products and legal entities.
Conforming applications may support additional characters, however for interface agreements or registers it may be appropriate to support only a final subset of characters and sequences based on this standard.