International Phonetic Alphabet

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

International Phonetic Alphabet
IPA

   <text, human language> (IPA) A system of symbols for
   representing pronunciation.  There is no commonly agreed way
   to represent IPA in {ASCII} characters though it can be
   represented in {Unicode}.

   [Reference?]

   (1998-12-30)