Karl Pentzlin wrote:
Am Montag, 9. August 2010 um 16:18 schrieb Otto Stolz:
Which one is recommended, when transliterating, as the Latin
equvalent of the Cyrillic letter Soft Sign (044C)?
U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME
I don’t think I’ve seen any specific recommendation on this, but I guess you
are referring to the statement ”transliteration of mjagkij znak (Cyrillic
soft sign: palatalization)” in the description of U+02B9 in the Unicode
Standard. I would classify the statement as descriptive about one use of the
character, rather as a normative statement on how the soft sign should be
transliterated.
It is of course transliteration standards that should say something
normative about the matter. As far as I can remember, the authoritative
versions of the relevant standards are the paper publications, which do no
identify characters by Unicode numbers, just as ink on paper.
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