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== Usage ==<br />
This template sets the font for its argument to one which is likely to support special symbols. The argument is specified using [[wikipedia:Html characters#HTML character references|HTML character encoding]], either in decimal (e.g. <code>&amp;#123;</code>) or hexadecimal (e.g. <code>&amp;#xA9;</code>). Examples:<br />
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* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&amp;#x22CA;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#x22CA;}} <br />
* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&amp;#8906;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#8906;}} <br />
* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&#8906;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#8906;}} (this may look trivial, but could be helpful in some browsers)<br />
or<br />
* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&amp;#x22C9;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#x22C9;}} <br />
* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&amp;#8905;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#8905;}} <br />
* <code>{<nowiki/>{unicode|&#8905;}}</code> → {{unicode|&#8905;}}<br />
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== Purpose ==<br />
This template was created to allow easy switching to [[wikipedia:Unicode font|Unicode font]]s. It should ''only'' be used for characters which do not render correctly on some browsers, such as [[wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]] [[wikipedia:Internet Explorer|Internet Explorer]] on [[wikipedia:Windows XP|Windows XP]].<br />
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The fonts selected are designed to maximize the probability of rendering uncommon Unicode characters correctly. However, different fonts cover different [[wikipedia:Mapping of Unicode characters|Unicode ranges]]. It is probably mostly useful for various [[wikipedia:Unicode symbols|Unicode symbols]]. Do not use it for the following:<br />
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* Strings in the [[wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet|International Phonetic Alphabet]].<br />
* Various non-Latin scripts.<br />
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== Internals ==<br />
The source for the template is:<br />
<code><nowiki><br />
<span class="Unicode">{{{1}}}</span><br />
</nowiki></code><br />
and <code>''class="Unicode"''</code> is defined in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] as follows:<br />
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.Unicode {<br />
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode"; <br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
Note it defines this ''only'' for Windows XP.<br />
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You can override this with your own <code>Unicode</code> class definition in your [[wikipedia:Help:User style|personal stylesheet]] (e.g. <code>User:''username''/common.css</code>).<br />
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