Original by Markus Kuhn, adapted for HTML by Martin Drst.

UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file


Markus Kuhn [maks kun] <mkuhn@acm.org>  1999-08-20


The ASCII compatible UTF-8 encoding of ISO 10646 and Unicode
plain-text files is defined in RFC 2279 and in ISO 10646-1 Annex R.


Using Unicode/UTF-8, you can write in emails and source code things such as

Mathematics and Sciences:

   Eda = Q,  n  ,  f(i) =  g(i), x: x = x,    = (  ),

            ,  < a  b  c  d    (A  B),

  2H + O  2HO, R = 4.7 k,  200 mm

Linguistics and dictionaries:

  i ntnnl fntk sosien
  Y [psiln], Yen [jn], Yoga [jog]

APL:

  ((VV)=V)/V,V    

Nicer typography in plain text files:

  
                                            
      single and double quotes         
                                            
      Curly apostrophes: Weve been here 
                                            
      Latin-1 apostrophe and accents: '`  
                                            
      deutsche Anfhrungszeichen       
                                            
      , , , , 34, , 5/+5, ,       
                                            
      ASCII safety test: 1lI|, 0OD, 8B     
                                 
      the euro symbol:  14.95           
                                 
  

Greek (in Polytonic):

  The Greek anthem:

      
     ,
      
       .

     
     
     
  ,  , !

  From a speech of Demosthenes in the 4th century BC:

      ,   ,
           
          
     ,    
    ,      
     .     
        ,   ,
       .  ,  
            
  ,       ,  
         
      ,   
  .     ,    
           
     ,    
     .

  ,  

Georgian:

  From a Unicode conference invitation:

      Unicode-  
   ,   10-12 ,
  . , .    
        Unicode-,
    , Unicode- 
   ,   , ,
       .

Russian:

  From a Unicode conference invitation:

        
  Unicode,   10-12  1997     .
          
    Unicode,   ,  
   Unicode      
  , ,     .

Thai (UCS Level 2):

  Excerpt from a poetry on The Romance of The Three Kingdoms (a Chinese
  classic 'San Gua'):

  [----------------------------|------------------------]
       
         
               
           
          
            
              
              

  (The above is a two-column text. If combining characters are handled
  correctly, the lines of the second column should be aligned with the
  | character above.)

Ethiopian:

  Proverbs in the Amharic language:

     
     
     
       
     
     
   
      
     
       
      
       
     
       
       
     
      
     

Runes:

             

  (Old English, which transcribed into Latin reads 'He cwaeth that he
  bude thaem lande northweardum with tha Westsae.' and means 'He said
  that he lived in the northern land near the Western Sea.')

Braille:

      

           
          
         
         
           
       

         

            
         
          
           
           
         
           
         
        

  (The first couple of paragraphs of "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens)

Compact font selection example text:

  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ /0123456789
  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
    
     

Greetings in various languages:

  Hello world,  , 

Box drawing alignment tests: