This paper deals with the problems in the representation of phonetic symbols of Malayalam language in html page. These symbols are not the ones normally available on the computer keyboard. In many cases it used to be written by hand and only few symbols were available in the insert mode in the word processors and many times they were not compatible with html packages. This paper focuses on the phonemes and allophones of Malayalam and their transliteration and presentation on the web. The outcome of the study is a Table consisting of the Malayalam phonetic symbols with their respective Unicode numbers and an explanation of utility. This study is helpful in the usage of Unicode in representing Indian language fonts at all levels such as in language teaching materials, in creating web documents in descriptive linguistics, and in converting the printed documents to digital resources.