Pronunciation output: "colon space" before, "\" and other issues.

I always wonder why we have the “colon space” artifact before the pronunciation.

Wouldn’t it be better to show which phonetic alphabet is shown instead? As in:

IPA: [trɑːnsˈkrɪpʃn̩] X-SAMPA: [trA:ns"krIpSn_=]

(X-SAMPA is often used in Text-to-Speech systems, dictionaries mostly use the IPA.)

I have no idea how many entries in the Wiktionaries are using SAMPA or X-SAMPA, probably only a few. Might still be helpful to show which, don’t you think? Or only take the IPA, but then remove the ": " artifact.

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IPA has no backslash, as far as I know. But we still generate things like

: \ˈwɪkʃən(ə)ɹi, \ˈwɪkʃənɹɪ\

which I believe are leftover artifacts from somewhere having quotes escaped.

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Traditionally, IPA pronunciation is also enclosed in square brackets (as shown above), but I don’t know the reason for it. Should we adapt that?

EDIT: Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters

EDIT 2: The word “Wiktionary” (EN) is given as

Pronunciation

    (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/, (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪkʃənɹɪ/

in the EN WIktionary.

Currently, we show it as:

: \ˈwɪkʃən(ə)ɹi, \ˈwɪkʃənɹɪ\

We should be sure to take the whole definitions (including slashes, brackets, stress marks) into our output, so more like:

IPA: /ˈwɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/, /ˈwɪkʃənɹɪ/

or (without the "IPA: "):

/ˈwɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/, /ˈwɪkʃənɹɪ/

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Call me a nitpicker—I just love quality! 😃

[ilius]

I filed an issue https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary/issues/358

Please let me know if it’s fixed.

[lasconic]

So that’s what puts the pronunciation next to the title… (looks odd to me).

The default dictionary on Kobo does that.