Talk:Unicode Phonetic Symbols
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[edit] Lots of Non-Displayed Characters
Whats the point of creating this chart if you can't display the characters ? Just to see hex column or rows? Even Firefox cannot show the hex 02EA~1D2B, 1D66~1DBF (except very few) ! Until most browsers supports or capable of display all those characters, a graphical representation is necessary, through picture/graphic file(s). Thanks. ~ Tarikash 00:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC).
- that's unrelated to which browser you are using. You have to have unicode fonts installed. I am using Firefox and most characters render properly for me. Of course you are free to add graphics, and to add a list with an entry for each character (name, purpose, etc.), along the lines of Miscellaneous Symbols/Letterlike Symbols. If you just want to see what the character should look like, you may also click on the external link (unicode.org), where you get pdf files of the ranges. But by all means, do add the graphical representation. I have no motivation to do that, because I see the characters already. dab (ᛏ) 16:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- Modification, installing font(s), or by changing default setup ... many things can be achieved, but, normally (default setup) cannot be seen. (i thought) we are trying our best to make pages/things working/displayable, with minimum or no extra modification, for the average users. Anyway, background color approach is very nice, easily distinguishable character categories, great. Editing individual graphics for each char takes up too much time, but i'll try that in future. But adding character entity name should be little easier. ~ Tarikash 21:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC).
- To use one of the available Unicode fonts to display the Unicode special characters, we need to specify the class="Unicode" in the table's TR tag (or, in each TD tag, but using in each TR is easier than in using in each TD), for wiki table code, we need to specify that after the "|-" (like |- class="Unicode"). Template code {{Unicode|char}} , <span class="Unicode"> ... </span>, etc for each character can also be used. I've updated few articles already with this class, and looks like few more characters are showing up than before. Thanks. ~ Tarikash 22:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC).
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- well, I am glad you know about {{unicode}}: note that it is just a temporary thing, it may help certain browsers to display things, but in the long run (say, if you wait for another year or so), most browsers should be able to render all this out-of-the-box. As I say above, you are welcome to add the {{unicode}}, of course, as well as other information. dab (ᛏ) 22:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Until most browsers support these by default without any modification, we should still specify and use these, it is only a matter of one bot and may be an hour to remove all these codes, when not needed/necessary any more, am i right? so why should we make things disfunctional at this moment, and wait for one year to work? by letting the chart/symbols displayable for one year, we will help many to see it, and understand it better, thus further progress of Unicode. ~ Tarikash 22:58, 16 July 2006 (UTC).
