SKB – Technical Notes - UTF-8 Support

Testing the Console

There are several UTF-8 encoded files one can use to test a console or terminal. A few of them are listed in the table below. Simply copy the text of the files into your console and see if the output is as expected.

Source	Description
W3C	A large set of files, all in UTF-8, that can be used to test UTF-8 terminal capabilities.
W3C UTF-8 Demo	This is an example from the W3C using a lot of commonly used UTF-8 characters.
W3C UTF-8 PS	List of 271 Unicode characters that represent a minimum repertoire that any modern Postscript printer driver receiving plaintext should be able to render.
mgk25	Set of UTF-8 files maintained by Dr Markus Kuhn, most of which are also hosted on the W3C links shown above.

Source

Description

W3C

A large set of files, all in UTF-8, that can be used to test UTF-8 terminal capabilities.

W3C UTF-8 Demo

This is an example from the W3C using a lot of commonly used UTF-8 characters.

W3C UTF-8 PS

List of 271 Unicode characters that represent a minimum repertoire that any modern Postscript printer driver receiving plaintext should be able to render.

mgk25

Set of UTF-8 files maintained by Dr Markus Kuhn, most of which are also hosted on the W3C links shown above.