Wikipedia talk:Pronunciation guide

SAMPA or IPA?
Moved from Village pump on Thursday, September 25th, 02003.

Are we supposed to give phonetics in SAMPA or IPA? IPA should work with all browsers correctly handling Unicode. The WikiPedia renderer could do on-the-fly translation to ASCII for the remaining browsers. David.Monniaux 23:40, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)


 * For now, both. Martin 23:42, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)


 * See this thread on the mailing list too. Angela

Discussion moved from project page
Is there a standard format for explaining pronunciation of a word? It occured to me that an international audience might need help with the word Ngaio in an entry I just wrote for Ngaio Marsh. Dramatic 03:23 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump/December_2002_archive for a short discussion on this subject between Zeaner, Stephen Gilbert and myself. I don't think a final word has been said yet. --KF 03:29 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

SAMPA or IPA. It seems we can use IPA characters, but I don't know if they show on all browsers. SAMPA is a safe bet. -- Tarquin

See also Manual of Style (pronunciation) for more inconclusive debate.

See also: Wiktionary:Pronunciation key on Wiktionary.