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I want to know if there is a way to use the International Phonetic Alphabet in QGIS?

I am working with a group of linguistics that want to map dialectic varibility in a language (Nahuatl) and I am not able to see the specific characters of a word, usually they appear as interrogations characters.

I tried loading the data in UTF-8 and system.

I am working with windows 10 64 bits in Spanish.

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    I have had success in using UTF-16 for various dialects, perhaps try this? – Joseph Oct 28 '15 at 16:06
  • Where is the data with the text coming from? Shapefiles? Any chance you can supply us a test dataset so we can have a play? Maybe you just don't have an IPA font on your system? – Spacedman Oct 28 '15 at 17:02
  • my information comes in ashp file, and you are wright i do not think i have an IPA font installed. Which one shoud I use under windows? – Gerardo Jimenez Oct 28 '15 at 17:56
  • try this page, suggests which fonts have the IPA unicode block. – Steven Kay Oct 28 '15 at 19:56
  • I already downloaded and installed doulos sil and charis sil fonts. Both were recomended by the linguist that I am working with. Nevertheless when I load my shape file usin either utf-8 or system I continue with some interrogation characters. I tried to label the communities with a field containing text in phonetic alphabet, changing the font (doulos or charis) and i is the same, som interrogation chatacters. I tried to load in UTF-16 but all my onformation went from spanish to chinese or japanese characters. I wonder if I am missing something. – Gerardo Jimenez Oct 30 '15 at 14:11
  • UTF8 and Windows can be quite complicated, because of Windows' default encoding. Have you tried to add a *.cpg to the shp? Alternatively have you tried to open the file in Linux? I also found a comment somewhere, that Ubuntu can destroy the encoding when saving with default encoding (can't find that one right now). Have you tried this approach? Have you tried recreating the layer with the right encoding? Could https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapefile_encoding_fixer/ be a solution? – bennos Nov 04 '15 at 08:17
  • Found the comment: http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/15914/8673 (I had the situation that Ubuntu somehow destroyed my encoding, then I had to recreate the shape from a backup) the next answer is also worth a shot http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/15915/8673 – bennos Nov 04 '15 at 08:24

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