On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:27 -0700, stevertigo wrote: > 1) As a rule, all language wikis should use International Phonetic > Alphabet as their standard pronunciation scheme. Very few appear to > actually do. > 2) All language wikis should attempt to use IPA to pronounce the > endonym of a foreign word, not the exonymic re-pronunciation (ie. Iraq > = /i??r??k/ not /??r?k/).
...which has its problems, as seen above: in the digest version of this list, non-ASCII characters are converted to question marks, making it impossible to read the IPA pronunciations even if one understands that symbol system. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
