Template talk:Plph

The tie-bars don't display correctly under Internet Explorer. They are shifted one mark backwards from where they should be. I fixed the problem, but my change was reverted, so I understand that other browsers work differently. Is there any special font one should install to view the transcription correctly also under Internet Explorer? --Botev (talk) 13:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

This is a well-known problem of the Arial Unicode MS font, see Arial Unicode MS#Bugs or IPA#Affricates and double articulation. Any other font should work fine. — Emil J. 13:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't fully understand what people have been doing with the ties or why, but we seem to have lost the no-width spaces that used to be there. Result: lots of readers get nonsense in their browsers. Can we have the spaces back, or is there some new issue with them?--Kotniski (talk) 16:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea what the spaces are supposed to be doing, as a no-width space is, by definition, invisible. I have now reverted the whole affricate section of the template to the April version. Does that fix your space issues? — Emil J. 17:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that seems to have worked. The no-width space is a workaround for a problem that arises in some browsers (well, IE6 at least, or maybe it depends what fonts you have installed) where a letter+tie-bar combination is interpreted as a completely different character (e.g. t+tie shows up as some kind of u).--Kotniski (talk) 13:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)