User talk:QwertyUSA

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Flat signs

I recently changed some symbols to "flat" in the clarinet article on the basis of wanting to be more understandable. Apparently, there's a group who feel strongly against this, despite obvious problems with so many users seeing blank spaces. Just as the "real" flat sign is unsupported in some browsers, surely it is also difficult to comprehend for people outside or tangentially outside the music world, who have no idea what that "b" thing is. I'm in the music world myself, but think it would be far better to use English (spelling out "flat") rather than using a specialty symbol. If, that is, we want the most people to read and understand and comprehend, rather than merely being "correct" in our own small field. Yes? No? Other thoughts? (Wasn't sure where to put this, so I put it here.) QwertyUSA 11:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. There's certainly not a right or wrong way to do this, and although I personally prefer to see "real" flats & sharps, other styles are accepted as well. I don't really know about the browser incompatability issues - I reverted on the general principle of retaining an article's existing style of notation/grammar/units of measurement/spelling (British vs. American english, Oxford commas or not, etc.). Keeps edit wars down, etc. I think this is in the guidelines or manual of style. This case is different, since there are apparently readability issues. Here's a post to my talk page from a couple of months ago about the issue - User:Dbolton is obviously much more knowledgeable about this issue and would probably be able to give you better guidance. - Special-T 13:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the new round of flat sign changes on the trumpet article too. Apparently this isn't a problem for any of the main competitors to Internet Explorer, i.e. Mozilla/Firefox, Safari, or Opera. I was hoping this problem would fade away with time, since Microsoft is releasing a new version of IE in the next few months. Unfortunately, this bug has not been addressed in the current preview release (beta 3) of IE 7. The missing flat sign in IE is part of a wider issue: lack of support for mixed Unicode blocks (See Unicode and HTML#Web browser support). --User:Dbolton 18:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This really shouldn't be a case of browser capabilities, or compatibilites at all. The articles will be more widely useful if written in English (spelling out "flat" or "sharp") rather than relying on special symbols from within the msuic field. While some people may have trouble seeing that these musical symbols are outside the norm, what if the scientists among us wanted every reference to "water" on Wikipedia to be written as "H₂O"? While that example might be easy, more complex chemical formulas would just gum up readability entirely. The analogous usage is in printed programs for concerts and recitals (not at educational institutions, but for the general public), where, far more often than not, "flat" and "sharp" are spelled out to ensure that audiences can read it. This is not because the sharp or flat signs are unavailable for printing, but in order to ensure the widest understanding and readability. While some might try to argue a difference between keys in which a work is written and the key in which an instrument is voiced ("okay" for pieces to be "in B-flat major" but an instrument should be "keyed" with the symbol), that would still be problematic for the general reader (who, I think, we should be aiming ourselves at/for). QwertyUSA 16:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have been trying to address the "problem with so many users seeing blank spaces" instead of Unicode flats and sharps at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) lately. We have a proposed solution that will show the correct symbol instead of black spaces in Internet Explorer. Please visit Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (music)#Unicode template for sharps and flats if you have an interest in this or care to comment.--Dbolton 00:16, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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