[Lingtyp] Entering IPA etc. characters/diacritics on new Apple Macs

[William Croft]

I have used IPA Palette for entering IPA, special characters and diacritics on my Mac for many years, which I was very happy with.

I am upgrading, or trying to upgrade, to a new Mac, using the Apple chip and macOS13 Ventura. Unfortunately the latest version of IPA Palette (2.3.2), doesn’t work on the new Macs and the Ventura OS. I wrote the developer, and he wrote back:

“I am no longer doing any Mac OS development. IPA Palette binaries will probably not run on current versions of the OS; however, anyone can download Xcode and compile the IPA Palette sources on GitHub for the current OS and chip architecture.”

Unfortunately, I don’t have the programming skills to do this. Have any of you done this for yourselves, and are willing to share the product? If not, what is the next best way to enter IPA/special characters/diacritics on a new Mac? I use it mainly for example sentences; I am not currently doing any continuous IPA transcription, for which an IPA keyboard setting is more suitable.

Thanks,
Bill