On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Tom Morris wrote:
Images of text shouldn't happen... except sometimes there is a very good reason to. For instance, if it's text in an ancient language that we have yet to produce a text representation of (although Unicode *does* have ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs).
Articles on en.wp about characters or writing systems sometimes have text and images of the same text to allow for people who don't have supporting fonts installed. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samekh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_alphabet
The IPA charts appear to have been reorganised away from columns for images and text of the same character since I last looked, which is an improvement. The mouseover text for all IPA characters appears to be "representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" though, which is not useful though.
Chris
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