[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 81, Issue 28

[Daniel R. Tobias]

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.


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