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Template:IPA contains

<span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">{{{1}}}</span>

I.e., it simply specifies CSS class IPA.

This allows fixing broken display of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters in MS Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and choice of style in any browser.


An example, placing a phonetic rendering of the word characters in Template:IPA:



<span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">[ˈkæ.ɹəkˌtə(ɹ)z]</span>

Which appears in your browser as:


Without template:IPA:


[The last two should only look different if you are using Internet Explorer on Windows, or if you have a custom style defined for IPA text.]

Please place all IPA text into Template:IPA, even if it doesn't have any special IPA characters, like this: [aj pi ej]. This will allow users to format all examples of IPA text consistently, with their choice of fonts, colours, etc.

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