[CrackMonkey] How to encode the IPA ?

[mike dillon]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> IPA has a page in the Unicode standard.  That means you can represent
> IPA using your favorite Unicode encoding.  Almost nobody will be able
> to read it, of course.
> 
> I bet there are other conventions, which you could probably find in a
> linguistics FAQ.  Unicode seems most correct to me, but it is not very
> practical.

here's some URLs for the predominant IPA in ASCII encoding used on Usenet. it
looks like it should be able to cover most european pretty handily. weird stuff
like implovises are a little kludgy and i couldn't find any examples of tone,
but it is covered. the first page covers ASCII IPA in the context of English
(from alt.usage.english), and includes audio samples. the second page has the
"official" specification from the guy who wrote it.

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/

-md