How is phonetics related to genealogic symbols?

While I was reading the thread “How to Wedding date”, I noticed that the tooltip for Preferences > Genealogic Symbox > “Use Symbols” ends with:

“This can be useful if you want to add phonetic in a note to show how to pronounce a name or if you mix multiple languages like greek and russian.”

How does this mesh with the use of genealogic symbols? I’m not making the connection…

Looked for where tooltip was in the code.

Knowing that, it is possible to trace the Pull Request that added this text? Maybe it snuck in accidentally.

It might make more sense if it was…

If checked....

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This can be useful...

A user could make the labels say anything, They could use cyrillic letters that phonetically produce “Birth”.

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Understood that the labels can be changed, but the part that’s not clear is what it has to do with phonetics and pronouncing names as the tooltip says. The label would apply to the entire tree, and wouldn’t make sense to pronouncing a particular name.

Could it be what @emyoulation said, i.e. “Maybe it snuck in accidentally.”?

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