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=== Usage ===
'''[[Template:IPA]]''' is most useful when there are multiple instances of the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA) on a page. It contains

<nowiki><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">{{{1}}}</span></nowiki>

This means, it simply specifies a class called “IPA” as a hook for CSS styling and DOM scripting. This allows fixing broken display of IPA characters in Windows XP, and choice of style in any browser.

The font declaration is in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] and targets ''only'' Windows XP. Registered Wikipedia users can specify their own style for IPA text by editing, for each project, their user style sheet, e.g. [[Special:MyPage/common.css]]. Users can also specify the style locally in their browser, which works across projects.

[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] also ensures that links inside IPA transcriptions marked up with this template do not use underlines since these carry special semantics there.

=== TemplateData ===
{{TemplateDataHeader}}
<templatedata>{
"description": "This template ensures proper display of transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), especially in older operating systems and browsers. There are related specialized templates that also semi-automatically generate the transcription itself.",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "transcription",
"description": "including square brackets [...] for phonetic transcriptions or enclosing forward slashes /.../ for phonemic ones",
"type": "string",
"required": true
}
}}</templatedata>

=== Examples ===
Placing a phonemic rendering of the word ''characters'' in Template:IPA:

<nowiki>{{IPA|/ˈkærəktɚz/}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>{{IPA|/[[character|ˈkærəktɚz]]/}}</nowiki>

The result will be a span with a class attribute, like this:

<nowiki><span</nowiki> title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">/ˈkærəktɚz/<nowiki></span></nowiki>

Which appear in your browser as:

: {{IPA|/ˈkærəktɚz/}}
: {{IPA|/[[character|ˈkærəktɚz]]/}}

Without template:IPA:

: /ˈkærəktɚz/
: /[[character|ˈkærəktɚz]]/

[These sets may look different if you are using Windows XP, or if you have a custom style defined for IPA text.]

Please place all IPA text into the template, even if it doesn't have any special IPA characters, like this: {{IPA |/mi/}}. This will allow users to format all examples of IPA text consistently, with their choice of fonts, colours, etc.

=== List of fonts ===
The following is a list of fonts used in Windows XP that are used using this template.
* [[Lucida Sans Unicode]]
* [[Arial Unicode MS]]

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[[Category:IPA templates|*]]


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