Slightly off topic, but: http://www.phonelosers.org/2017/12/confusing-phonetic-alphabet/
All the best, Murk On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:29 PM Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > On 2018-10-14, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > > > Are there any phoneticians running on OpenBSD? > > I still haven't read Ladefoged yet, but I use IPA somewhat regularly. > > > How do you type the phonetic alphabet in vim? > > Is there a standard keyboard layout for the English part of IPA? > > I don't use vim, but the sad answer is that I copy and paste, > principally from Wikipedia's IPA page. If you're only dealing with > English, the Help:IPA/English page is more convenient. > > In general, I use the X11 compose key to enter special characters. > See /usr/X11R6/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the available > combinations. That's sufficient for entering the letters and > diacritics used in all European languages that use the Latin alphabet. > However, it does not cover IPA. > > Vim comes with its own "digraph" system, which uses the RFC1345 > digraphs by default. They cover a wide range, including Greek and > Cyrillic, but alas, there's another big hole in the Unicode range > where the IPA block (U+0250..02AF) is. > > > but I am looking for a "standard" way. > > I suspect people use an on-screen keyboard / character picker. > > In fact, googling for <ipa character picker> immediately finds a > bunch of web-based ones. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > >
