[WikiEN-l] Re: morphophonics for wikipedia

Wed Jul 30 23:07:55 UTC 2003

steve vertigo wrote:

>While Tarquin's comment was a bit cheeky (what use
>would he have had *then for it) -- and Dan's comment
>earlier about professors knowing better than the rest
>of us, so why bother (well?) -- represent the pinnacle
>of interest in the subject...  Still -- wikipedia
>might have an interest in attempting to
>unify/formalize something on this. Maybe its time that
>
>http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_schema
>
>But the whole notion of using English specific formats
>is useless-- once again the see we tend to swim in is
>an English-centered one.
>
>And Ill take a look at any PHP or Perl pinyin
>converters so that stuff like "pin:/wo3 bao4 you3/
>SARS" gets turned in into properly accented vowels,
>etc. 
>  
>
How about something similar to the ISBN links that generates SABLE/MS 
SAPI markup/whatever the heck Apple use &c?