Title: Using IPA characters in posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Using IPA characters in posts

 *  Resolved [words2us](https://wordpress.org/support/users/words2us/)
 * (@words2us)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/)
 * I know this question has probably been asked before, but how do you get IPA (
   International Phonetic Alphabet) characters to show in posts? All I get when 
   I copy and paste the code in for these characters is question marks.

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798471)
 * Are you using the character codes like `ä` and the html editor?
 *  Thread Starter [words2us](https://wordpress.org/support/users/words2us/)
 * (@words2us)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798630)
 * No, are you supposed to use those character codes for IPA characters?
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798640)
 * As far as I know, that is the only way.
 *  Thread Starter [words2us](https://wordpress.org/support/users/words2us/)
 * (@words2us)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798650)
 * Sorry, could you give an example of how you would use it? Would it be something
   like:
 * <p>ä(IPA characters)ä</p>
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798655)
 * Yes.
    [http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipachart.html](http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipachart.html)
 * [http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-pro.htm](http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-pro.htm)
 *  Thread Starter [words2us](https://wordpress.org/support/users/words2us/)
 * (@words2us)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-ipa-characters-in-posts/#post-2798657)
 * Thanks kmessinger, that helped a lot. 🙂

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