> English-language dictionaries and the reading textbooks I used in elementary school in the US in the 1980s use a different standard.
Perhaps I'm being too nit-picky, but that's actually more just like an alternate English alphabet than it is a phonetic alphabet. The goal of a phonetic alhpabet is to map symbols any sound that is distinguishable in any language, not simply the ones that are distinguishable in English.
X-SAMPA is a lot more like the IPA. It's basically an incomplete encoding of IPA in ASCII. It's a little hack to get around the insufficiencies of inputing characters into computer devices.
Perhaps I'm being too nit-picky, but that's actually more just like an alternate English alphabet than it is a phonetic alphabet. The goal of a phonetic alhpabet is to map symbols any sound that is distinguishable in any language, not simply the ones that are distinguishable in English.
X-SAMPA is a lot more like the IPA. It's basically an incomplete encoding of IPA in ASCII. It's a little hack to get around the insufficiencies of inputing characters into computer devices.