Template:Language characters
(language characters)
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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}}.