IPA

Linguists sometimes use X-SAMPA as a way to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet using the more limited ASCII character set. Although the widespread adoption of utf8 and Unicode has made it increasingly easy to display the several IPA glyphs, a character substitution scheme like X-SAMPA can be useful when composing IPA. Many of the substitutions are fairly intuitive, and there is no need to scan through symbol charts or navigate away from the content you are editing.

This filter will treat text between hyphen/curly-brace combinations as X-SAMPA to be rendered as Unicode IPA. Mark the beginning of X-SAMPA with "-{" and the end with "}-".

For full support it is also recommended that Moodle administrators load an appropriate web font. Details on how to do so will be found in the README file.