Unicode Pages

These pages contain some material related to Unicode and the UTF-8 encoding. There is a collection of UTF-8 encoded sample text files which might be helpful to test unicode implementations or fonts. I also made a generated, simplistic index of the unicode chart tables in text format, since the official charts are in PDF format and might therefore be difficult to use on text terminals, or for testing Unicode fonts.

Unicode sample text files (UTF-8 encoding)

This file contains a table of digits and numerals in various writing systems and presentation forms.

A table of characters whose glyphs are very close resemblants to those of the Latin alphabet. Useful for comparing similarities and differences.

A (non-exhaustive) table of characters with diaeresis, useful for consistency comparisons.

A selection of alphabets for different languages and writing systems.

This file contains transliteration tables of old Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Runes (Fuþorks).

A file to test the line drawing characters from Unicode Section 2500..257F. You can only really expect this to work on monospace or text terminal fonts.

A file to test the block drawing characters from Unicode Section 2580..259F. You can only really expect this to work on monospace or text terminal fonts.

A file for testing superscript / subscript characters present in the Unicode standard.

A file containing the Japanese Iroha poem in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (encoded in UTF-8).

A file containing a table of available runes in Unicode Section 16A0-16FF.

A file for testing the card game symbols hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds; also the inverted versions.

A file containing some sample chess boards for the testing of the Unicode chess game characters.

Code tables of various 8-bit character sets, including all those from the ISO-8859 series and also some others. The file itself is encoded in UTF-8.

This file lists Unicode points of glyphs containing hearts or heart-like shapes.

A test file for the support of the Tengwar script, as developed by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Tengwar characters in this file are encoded following Michael Everson's Tengwar Proposal, in the Private Use block of Plane 0 (starting from U+E000).

An extract from Tolkien's original work Lord Of The Rings, featuring the first mentioning of the ring inscription. I transcribed the text from a paperback edition of his books.

Sample text files (other encodings)

A test file containing the box drawing elements of the KOI-8 code.

A file containing a table of all possible 8-bit characters. This file can be used with any 8-bit encoding which includes the 7-bit ASCII block (e.g. ISO-8859-n for all n, KOI-8, CP850, CP437, etc.).