Template:Language characters/doc
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Usage[edit]
Documentation for the underlying template Template:Language characters, though also utilised for all templates that are based pre-defined.
To identify characters on a page that are in a language other than English where difficulty is had with typing them as per the transcription. Pages that use this template will be listed at Category:Problematic language or a subsidiary language category [[Category:Pages with missing language characters]] if language has been identified.
Where this template is used in the Page: namespace, the page status should be marked as Problematic (purple).
{{language characters
|language =
|texttip =
}}
- language = user defined parameter, eg. Greek, Cyrillic
- where language is defined that word will appear as the language type "Greek characters" or "Cyrillic characters", otherwise a default "language characters" is used
- texttip = guidance to the reader, if required
- translit
- trackingcat = optionally, override the default tracking category (which uses the expensive ifexist parser function)
Predefined templates[edit]
To make it easier, the following templates utilise this template and sort accordingly into the respective categories
- {{Amharic missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Amharic characters
- {{Arabic missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Arabic characters
- {{Bengali missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Bengali characters
- {{Chinese missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Chinese characters
- {{Cyrillic missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Cyrillic characters
- {{Greek missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Greek characters
- {{Hebrew missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Hebrew characters
- {{Hiero missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Hieroglyphic characters
- {{Hindi missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Hindi characters
- {{Japanese missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Japanese characters
- {{Kannada missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Kannada characters
- {{Persian missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Persian characters
- {{Missing runes}} to Category:Pages with missing Rune characters
- {{Sanskrit missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Sanskrit characters
- {{Symbol missing}} to Category:Pages with missing symbol characters
- {{Syriac missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Syriac characters
- {{Tamil missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Tamil characters
- {{Telugu missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Telugu characters
- {{Urdu missing}} to Category:Pages with missing Urdu characters
Note[edit]
Formatting of this template is based on {{tooltip}}.
See also[edit]