On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:27 -0700, stevertigo wrote:
- 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.