Arabic-L:GEN:Unicode and IPA responses

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: Tom Emerson <tree at basistech.com>
Subject:Unicode and IPA response

Muhamed Khalil writes:
> We put an article we wrote on Gulf Arabic into HTML using Unicode as
> requested by the publisher. The Arabic characters appeared, but some
> IPA symbols turned out as boxes. Any ideas on the reasons and how to
> resolve this?

This is undoubtedly a font issue. Assuming that your IPA symbols are
encoded correctly you (or your publisher) will need to find a suitable
font. The SIL International has several IPA fonts available:

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/
show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font

You may also want to look at

          http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

to see if something there will work for you.

Regards,
Tom Emerson

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Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Unicode and IPA response

It sounds as if the IPA font you used was not UNICODE.
If that is true, then you need a UNICODE IPA font.

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Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: "Dr. Asma Siddiki" <asiddiki at ecollege.edu.sa>
Subject:Unicode and IPA response

Hi Dil,
Please pass this info on...

In order to make sure the font remains treat it like you would any
other symbol that may not be recognisable by another PC...

What you do is type it into a Paint - type program and save that file
as a jpg. or bmp.  Then insert the "image" onto your webpage... it
can't go wrong other than not loading... the problem is it DOES make it
a larger file, that's all...

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