Unicode

Unicode fonts are recognised in the same way by all computers everywhere because each character in a Unicode font has a unique number assigned to it. Because of this unique code, computers will display the same symbol when reading the document as the writer intended when writing it. This is true no matter what kind of computer or operating system you use.

These fonts, along with Keyman, which provides a keyboard for typing IPA characters, are freely downloadable from SIL at

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/index.asp#fonts

You can find out more about Unicode at

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/