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I'm not talking about homonyms (but I wasn't clear enough about that, sorry). I'm talking about the exact alphabets describing pronunciations. Honestly I can't
by lifthrasiir 3y ago
I'm not talking about homonyms (but I wasn't clear enough about that, sorry). I'm talking about the exact alphabets describing pronunciations. Honestly I can't really differentiate [hɑt] and [hat] sounds, but their IPA renditions are clearly different and have to be differently encoded.
- WalterBright 3y ago> have to be differently encoded. They don't. It's a fake problem.
- lifthrasiir 3y agoSo you have two different pronunciations [hat] and [hat]. Which one is which? Do you really expect to say "[hat] as in General American hot" and "[hat] as in Received Pronunciation hat" every time? Isn't the IPA supposed to be an unambiguous transcription (so to say)?
- iainmerrick 3y agoIt’s a fake problem if you just want to write the word “sow” or “hat”, sure, but if you want to write the IPA pronunciation of a word you need the IPA characters in your charset. Wikipedia has those IPA pronunciations and they’re useful. How else would you do that without including those characters in Unicode? Would you rather have them as images?