You need to load an IPA font. Look here: https://www.sil.org/ 

Or did you mean this? 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1899290 [How do you enter Unicode characters?]

More detail on using an IPA font in Mac OS:

http://savethevowels.org/posts/ipa_with_osx.html

But unless/until we hear back from the OP, all of our suggestions and questions go for naught.

Yep!

Thanks, guys.  Definitely looking for the IPA (so the singer knows how to pronounce words from an unusual language), not Unicode.  I'll definitely look into the links.

Thanks again!

You need to understand how Unicode works to enter the IPA fonts.

To paraphrase the Governator, "you'll be back…"

Anyone needing to use IPA glyphs, this may be useful:

http://ipa.typeit.org/  (on-line point and click entry, then copy and paste to your application.)

1. I forgot about that site. I've used it for years and had referenced it earlier in an old thread about Polish language lyrics.

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115007115027-Finale-PrintMusic-2011-Lyric-Languages

But you still need to have an IPA font installed on your computer.

>But you still need to have an IPA font installed on your computer.<

Interesting... and absolutely correct (you made me look).

Even though you can paste the characters into a Word or Text doc and print the results, Finale can't read them except as graphics (and who wants to enter Lyrics as Graphics?). Finale is not as sophisticated as a bare-bones word processor.

There you have it. No IPA font installed? Finale can't display the characters.