Using tipa with XeLaTeX fontspec and real UTF-8 characters

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Following on from the post Using TIPA with fontspec, how would I go about using IPA glyphs with XeLaTeX using the actual Unicode UTF-8 characters instead of using the tipa re-encoding? That is, using tipa you can say

\textipa{f@"nEtIks}

but I'd like just to be able to type

fə′nɛtɪks

or even

\textipa{fə′nɛtɪks}

that is, using the actual UTF-8 characters, not the tipa symbolic notation. Is this possible?

@Sverre it doesn't work with the default (lm) fonts though, missing characters in that case. — David Carlisle, Jun 10 '15 at 12:29
@DavidCarlisle True, but since the OP explicitly mentions fontspec, xelatex, Unicode, and UTF-8, I take it for granted that the OP knows how to load unicode fonts with fontspec. (Isn't the default font cm, btw?) — Sverre, Jun 10 '15 at 13:10
This question is essentially a cross between Accessing IPA characters when using Charis SIL, which is about how to input UTF-8 characters when using fontspec and xelatex, and Proper way to use LaTeX fonts in XeLaTeX. The added dimension is that tipa is the only font with T3 encoding. — Jason Zentz, Jun 10 '15 at 16:37

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '15 at 11:49

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As long as you have a font with the characters, why not?

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The above being the output from

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}
\begin{document}

fə′nɛtɪks

\end{document}

answered Jun 10 '15 at 11:49

David Carlisle

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Good point. I was hoping to be able to use the tipa fonts but I guess I'll need to write a remapping shim to do that. – Peter Flynn Jun 10 '15 at 15:28
@PeterFlynn The TIPA fonts are included in cm-unicode. – Sverre Jun 11 '15 at 11:43

Using tipa with XeLaTeX fontspec and real UTF-8 characters

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