steve vertigo wrote:
While Tarquin's comment was a bit cheeky (what use would he have had *then for it) -- and Dan's comment earlier about professors knowing better than the rest of us, so why bother (well?) -- represent the pinnacle of interest in the subject... Still -- wikipedia might have an interest in attempting to unify/formalize something on this. Maybe its time that
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_schema
But the whole notion of using English specific formats is useless-- once again the see we tend to swim in is an English-centered one.
And Ill take a look at any PHP or Perl pinyin converters so that stuff like "pin:/wo3 bao4 you3/ SARS" gets turned in into properly accented vowels, etc.
How about something similar to the ISBN links that generates SABLE/MS SAPI markup/whatever the heck Apple use &c?