Comments on: ASCII code for the schwa?

Question: ASCII code for the schwa?

archimago — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:29:28 -0800

Anyone know the ASCII code for the schwa? 20 minutes of fruitless Googling and I give up.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:49:28 -0800

If it's not here, it probably doesn't have a code.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:49:31 -0800

what's a schwa?

ascii codes are limited to 7 bits and are listed here.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:50:04 -0800

you mean ~? try & #126; without that spacem of course.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:51:09 -0800

do you mean html character entities?

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:51:13 -0800

I don't think it exists. Yourdictionary.com, for example, uses little images.

By: jasper411

jasper411 — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:51:27 -0800

I think you have to use Unicode #601 in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Check out the scwha at the top of the browser window (if your browser is Unicode compliant)

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:07:13 -0800

what's a schwa?

Schwa.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:16:27 -0800

jasper411 wins: ə

ə works.

By: archimago

archimago — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:17:42 -0800

thanks all. (That's a tilde, Hackworth). I've actually found a way around my problem.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:18:51 -0800

The schwa (an upside-down "e" used to denote the "uh" sound) character is not a part of the ASCII standard, or the extended-ASCII implementations I'm aware of (although it might be in MacSCII, but these days the Mac is mostly Unicode).

Looks like if you're willing to go outside of ASCII, you could manage Unicode or a character entity as others have said, but as far as ASCII goes you're out of luck.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:31:33 -0800

Curses! That schwa shows up fine in Firefox in Linux, but not in IE in Windows 2000. Maybe W2K doesn't come with a full set of Unicode fonts.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:19:51 -0800

Depends what international support you have installed, I guess. I see that schwa just fine in Win2k/Firefox (but not in IE for some reason).

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:31:25 -0800

schwa, tilde, whatever.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:22:00 -0800

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:22:44 -0800

Damnit. Stupid preview vs. post character entry eating fuck-all.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:59:51 -0800

I thought the Schwa was that alien graphic.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:07:58 -0800

yeah, the schwa is that alien graphic, but it was a phonetic symbol before that.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:23:50 -0800

Metafilter: Stupid preview vs. post character entry eating fuck-all.