Computer-coding the IPA: a proposed extension of SAMPA

1. Computer coding. When an ASCII file (a DOS text file) is sent as an e-mail message, the only characters that are sure to be properly transmitted are those with ASCII/ANSI numbers between 32 and 126. These comp rise upper-case A..Z, lower-case a..z, numerals 0..9, punctuation marks ! " ' ( ) , . / : ; ? [ ] { }, other marks # $ % & * + < = > @ \ ^ _ ` | ~, and space. If we want to transmit phonetic symbols, we must therefore recode them using only these characters.