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== Usage ==

In its basic version, this template sets the font for its argument to one which is likely to support special symbols. The argument is specified using [[wpen:Html_characters#HTML_character_references|HTML character encoding]], either in decimal (e.g. <tt>&#123;</tt>) or hexadecimal (e.g. <tt>&#xA9;</tt>), or by pasting it as plain text. Examples:

* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|&#x22CA;}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋊}}
* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|&#8906;}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋊}}
* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|⋊}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋊}}
or
* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|&#x22C9;}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋉}}
* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|&#8905;}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋉}}
* {{code snippet|<nowiki>{{unicode|⋉}}</nowiki>}} → {{unicode|⋉}}

== Purpose ==

This template was created to allow easy switching to [[wpen:Unicode font|Unicode font]]s. It helps some browsers in which characters which do not render correctly, such as [[wpen:Microsoft|Microsoft]] [[wpen:Internet Explorer|Internet Explorer]] on [[wpen:Windows XP|Windows XP]].

The fonts selected are designed to maximize the probability of rendering uncommon [[wpen:Unicode|Unicode]] characters correctly. However, different fonts cover different [[wpen:Mapping of Unicode characters|Unicode ranges]]. It is probably mostly useful for various [[wpen:Unicode symbols|Unicode symbols]].

== Internals ==

The source for the template is:
<source lang="XML">
<span class="Unicode">{{{1}}}</span>
</source>
and <code>class="Unicode"</code> is defined in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] as follows:
<source lang="CSS">
.Unicode {
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode";
}
</source>
Note it is defined ''only'' for Windows XP. It does so by targeting XP in JavaScript.

You can override this with your own <code>Unicode</code> class definition in your [[wpen:Help:User_style|personal stylesheet]] (e.g. <tt>User:''username''/common.css</tt>).

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[[Category:Text generation templates]]
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