# more testing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 25, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482 "2000-04-25T19:03:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482/1 "2000-04-25T19:03:00Z")

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unicode testing:

## α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ

You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482/2 "2000-04-25T19:11:00Z")

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Oooh… Unicode testing. Interesting. Let’s see if this works:  
¥ŒÌ•SD•SŸ ”ñ‘P”V‘PŽÒ–ç •sDŽ§‹ül”V•º ‘P”V‘PŽÒ–ç

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482/3 "2000-04-25T19:16:00Z")

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Yippee, you can read it if you set the encoding to Chinese Simplified (GB2312).

Now we’ll see if anyone can get the reference. To give the non-Chinese scholars a chance, I’ll specify that I discussed this quote in another thread. Any takers?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482/4 "2000-04-26T19:54:00Z")

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Does this make any cents? ¢

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You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda

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**Author:** ![junebeetle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@junebeetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junebeetle)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-testing/1482/5 "2000-04-27T01:25:00Z")

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While we’re testing special characters here:  
æ_æ_ **æ**