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A: This site is to do with the Web, not proprietary document formats such as Word, but the problem is similar to how we represent and render special characters on the Web. The standard way to include International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) glyphs in HTML is to use Unicode, either as UTF-8 character literals with appropriate document character encoding, or as HTML entities.
Unicode numeric entities can be declared as a decimal, ɑ, or prefixed with an x for an hexadecimal value, ɑ for the "open back unrounded" glyph for example. This approach separates the physical representation of a phonetic glyph in a document from the way it is rendered on screen or in print, and removes reliance on a specific font family or operating system. To complete the arrangement, declare a series of preferred font families in a Unicode font stack, as below.
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