Template:Language characters/doc

Usage
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 &#91;&#91;Category:Pages with missing language characters]] if has been identified.

Where this template is used in the Page: namespace, the page status should be marked as Problematic (purple).


 * 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
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
Formatting of this template is based on tooltip.