LINGUISTIquips

If you’re like me, your penmanship is horrible.

As a consequence, I type everything, which meant two things when doing linguistics assignments:

• I had to find fonts that contained APA or IPA phonological characters.

• I had to learn keystrokes to use those fonts.

Luckily, I use Macintosh, which lets you use the “American Extended” keyboard layout to type, allowing the use of APA/IPA characters and diacritics to get the job done. However, when I started this site, I came up with another question: is it possible to show phonetic characters in HTML, and if so, how?

Luckily, I soon found this site, which lists most phonetic characters and how to display them using Unicode. Thanks to the listing, I can do this:

[ɛksəlɛnʔ] !!!