If you are afraid that not all your viewers have access to recent Unicode compliant browsers, then these workarounds may help you place phonetic symbols on the Web
The safest options are to use image files or convert a word-processing file into a PDF file. However there are some HTML tags and entity codes that will work for more recent browsers.
Note: Avoid using special non-Unicode phonetics fonts in your Web site. Fonts may not always be available and some versions of a font differ between Windows and Macintosh.
These are some HTML tags which can help you mimic certain symbols. Technically speaking, they are not "correct Unicode", but will work in almost all cases.
You can use the <sup></sup> and <sub></sub> tags respectively to generate superscript and subscript letters in most recent browsers. See examples below:
HTML - g<sup>w</sup>
Result - gw
HTML - C<sub>0</sub>
Result -C0
The tags <strike></strike> can be used to generate letters with a strike through bar:
HTML - hors<strike>i</strike>z
Result - horsiz
New entity codes for Greek letters have been introduced, and are supported in
recent browsers including Firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer,
Safari and Opera.
Note: These are not supported in Netscape 4.7.
Α = Α | α= α | Β = Β | β = β and so forth
