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:I'm still not sure how to actually present this legend in articles, though. I imaging we could put it in a template and include the template before/after every Unicode table. That would be clear and obvious, which is good, but it might be ugly and waste space, too. Perhaps some kind of JavaScript to collapse the legend by default? (No JavaScript just means it is expanded by default.) Another option would be a wikilink to the legend, perhaps from the table headers, or just before/after the table. But I'm not sure where to keep the target of the wikilink ([[WP:namespace]], page name, etc.). I'd be interested in hearing your (or others') thoughts on this. —<small>[[User:DragonHawk|DragonHawk]] ([[User talk:DragonHawk|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/DragonHawk|hist]])</small> 01:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

::Perhaps the information could be presented as a sidebar. I've done that with images in the OCR-A article, but I'm not sure how to do it with text. [[User:John Sauter|John Sauter]] ([[User talk:John Sauter|talk]]) 02:03, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

=== Image Column ===

I agree that if no image of a Unicode character exists, this column must be left blank. However, I think that should almost never be the case, and that much useful information is lost when no image is available. We should encourage the table author to find or create a suitable image, perhaps by giving some suggestions, or even tutorials, in this page. For example, when I needed images of the OCR-A characters, I rendered the characters at 1000 points, then traced the outlines to produce svg files. Another method would be to trace the outline of the sample characters in the Unicode standard. [[User:John Sauter|John Sauter]] ([[User talk:John Sauter|talk]]) 02:03, 24 June 2009 (UTC)