How to process IPA phonetic symbols?
You will need to solve two quite separate problems. First, you need a suitable font in your computer to be able to see the symbols on the screen and print them. To do that, download a suitable font e.g. from SIL (CharisSIL) and ensure you copy all the .ttf files within it (CharisSILR.ttf, CharisSILB.ttf etc) to c:\windows\fonts. Second, you need WordSmith to be able to process the symbols in your text files. The easiest way to do that is to ensure your texts are in Unicode (in MS Word, save as plain text (.txt) and in the set of encodings choose “Unicode”). Here’s a zipped sample for you to use for test purposes. You should now be able to open the unzipped sample text in Notepad, select your font and see everything OK. It should look something like this Now re-start WordSmith so as to be sure all the fonts are loaded and choose the font in Adjust Settings | Languages : In the Characters window you should now be able to see the results. There are charts at Unicode e.g. here showing the
