Talk:Linguistics/Phonetics

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[edit] IPA Table

Instead of going through the trouble of making an IPA table, isn't it just easier to link to here? - Ingolemo 22:08, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Possibly, though that doesn't use the right symbols. Alternatively, we could just use the graphic from wikipedia. The advantage of having an IPA with the correct symbols is that it will be useful for quickly copying and pasting when we need to use those symbols elsewhere... Frankie Roberto 16:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What do you mean not the right symbols? They're exactly the same as the ones here. Anyway, if it's so bad then just edit it. - Ingolemo 15:51, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's a different table completely. Compare with IPA chart - the symbols in that table have been built using diacratic marks. I could just edit it, but there's not much point now that I've created the HTML table. See IPA symbols in Unicode Frankie Roberto

It uses diacritics only for those parts of the table that do not have their own symbol. It is more comprehensive than the regular IPA charts that one sees on the web, because it fills in the blank spaces for you.

I don't suppose there's much point now, since you've already done most of the work. Oh, and rest assured, my computer can display IPA characters fine. - Ingolemo 21:29, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I would like a way of shading in some of the boxes though. I've put in class="impossible" tags, but there's no way I can find of doing custom CSS.

I've edited the table so that it uses inline CSS; not the best solution, but the only implementable one. Is it okay? - Ingolemo 23:21, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I took the liberty of filling in the symbols that hadn't been entered with their Unicode symbols. I know it's not a perfect way of doing it, but unless we're willing to make PNG files for every non-latin IPA symbol I think this is the best way to do it. I haven't entered any of the diacritic-type symbols since they're not part of the standard. Also, are we going to include the vowel and non-pulmonic charts as well? The vowel chart may be a tad difficult to do properly in pure table form, but the non-pulmonic table should be easy.

Oh, as a note, this page has a list of all the Unicode IPA symbols, as well as a list of fonts that carry them (although I'm not sure of it's last update). -- Kirby1024 08:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)