When it is reasonably certain that the majority of our audience do not have a font, current practice is to include a screen shot. While functional, it is not the best solution because search engines will not be able to read these. For Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary, including foreign text is the rule and not the exception and many of its readers see the rectangles of the Unicode fonts missing on their system.
With multiple languages present in a text, a spell checker will mark much of a text as in error. It does this because it is not aware of changes in language.
With the languages in our articles properly marked, a spell checker can prevent obvious errors, a search engine can do its job and we can provide additional targeted support by providing input methods and web fonts.
Thanks,
GerardM
2 comments:
On the french-language Wikipedia, we do mark the "foreign bodies" as such, using the {{lang}} template.
It is even one of the AdQ criteria (equivalent of featured article).
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