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:It's an issue with the font. Try Noto Serif (or simply <code>font-family: serif;</code>) and see if it works. [[User:Nardog|Nardog]] ([[User talk:Nardog|talk]]) 10:30, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
:: At this point Noto Sans fonts can hardly be recommended, for the current release versions still contain several bugs that concern IPA: [https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1265 badly scaled glyphs for modifier letters], [https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1392 wrong glyphs for contour tones], and [https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1603 ineffective lookups for Greek letters in phonetic notation]. The latter bug is also a reminder for our template programmers that it is not enough to add <code>.IPA</code> class markup to our source text. In order to prevent smart fonts (not only Noto fonts) from selecting glyphs for Greek when specially designed glyphs for IPA are available a valid [[IETF language tag]] should be added, probably <code><nowiki><span lang="und-Latn-fonipa">...</span></nowiki></code> (undefined language; Latin script; IPA). Note that the Unicode standard considers IPA a subset (writing system) of the Latin script though a few Greek letters are used, and see [https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry] for the subtag definitions. <small>[[Wikipedia:WikiLove|Love]]</small> —[[:commons:User:LiliCharlie|LiliCharlie]] <small>([[User talk:LiliCharlie|talk]])</small> 11:15, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
== A few questions ==
Would it be more correct to add tie-bars to all the affricates? If so, does anyone know how to do that?
I noticed that most of the cells have both a voiced and unvoiced symbol, with the voiceless diacritic being used if a full letter is not available. However, a few symbols (I found ⱱ̟ ⱱ ɾ̼ ɱ n̼ ɴ, there may be others) are missing their voiceless counterparts, and at least one voiceless symbol (ʈɭ̊˔) is missing its voiced counterpart. Is this intentional?
A few cells which are not shaded (many in the linguo-labial section, and some in the uvular section) are empty. Is this intentional?
Would it make sense to have specific symbols for all the dental, alveolar, and post-alveolar sounds, using diacritics, to better match the specificity provided for fricatives and affricates? Or is there some theoretical, practical, or other reason to reserve such specificity to the fricatives and affricates?
Thanks for reading!
[[User:JonathanHopeThisIsUnique|JonathanHopeThisIsUnique]] ([[User talk:JonathanHopeThisIsUnique|talk]]) 09:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
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