On 09/04/2000 01:42:58 PM Robert Wheelock wrote:

>Hello!  A while back, I came across a codepage for the
>IPA phonic alphabet (which is usually lowercase
>unicasal) which had a 3-page (I think) .PDF file to
>download (which had the codepage table for IPA that
>would be the MS-Windows standard [or very close to
>it]).  Would you know of where to look for it on the
>I-NET?  Would you have a copy of that selfsame .PDF
>file yourself?  How about native systems (languages in
>Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, ...)?
>Thank You!

Robert:

This question would probably be more suited to the Unicode list than to
this list, but I'll comment here anyway. There is no standard 8-bit
codepage for IPA, including from MS. The SIL IPA93 fonts are probably the
most widely used IPA fonts, and so might be considered by some as a de
facto standard. I believe if you download them from the SIL site
(www.sil.org) you'll find documentation that gives the codepage. As for
minority languages from Africa, etc. again, there are no standard
codepages; AFAIK, in most cases there aren't even de facto standards.
Eventually, I hope to be able to document codepages that have been created
for use within SIL for such languages, but I don't yet have much info on
that.


- Peter


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