IPA character picker v10

Notes:

Quick start

(You must have JavaScript enabled.) Choose a view (see below). Click on characters/shapes to insert text into the output field or use your keyboard for Latin characters, delete, etc. You can also add codepoints and escapes via the "Add codepoint" field (hit return to add to the output field).

Then cut & paste the result to your document, or use the tabs to get further information about the characters. You can also paste text into the output field to get information about it. Use the yellow box to set preferences or search (regular expressions allowed - to find characters with a 'Z' surrounded by spaces in the name, enter \bz\b, or the short form :z:).

 

About the chart

Includes all the symbols in the Unicode the standard IPA chart. The table draws characters from several Unicode blocks.

I also added a number of additional diacritics and symbols requested by phoneticians using the chart.

NOTE: You can use phonetic terminology when searching (eg. 'affricate', 'palatal','lower', etc) in this picker, in addition to Unicode character names.

All text is output in Unicode normalisation form NFC by default. You can change to NFD or no normalisation by clicking on the buttons in the yellow area. Note that normalization only takes place when you click on a character - text pasted into the box won't be normalised until you click on another character above, or click on a button in the yellow area. (Note: normalization is turned off for Han characters in this application.)

Alternative views

The following alternative views are available by clicking just below the page title. You can start up directly in one of the views by appending the following to your URI: ?view=, followed by one of, respectively, default or fontgrid.

Default Characters are arranged similarly to the standard IPA chart. The trill and tap or flap rows of the standard chart have been merged to save space. The same applies to the approximant and lateral approximant rows. Non-pulmonic symbols were also added to the last two rows of the table for the same reason.

Font grid Shows characters in Unicode order, using whatever font is specified in the Font list or Custom font input fields. This allows comparison of fonts (especially useful in IE, which shows if a glyph is missing from a font).

Other commands

For further information about features of the tool or user interface, see How to use..

Useful URIs

Descriptions of the symbols http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-consonants

IPA Home page and list of symbols.

Recommended (free) fonts: Charis SIL, Doulos SIL or Gentium

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