# Test how your browser handles some Unicode. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 27, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263 "2004-09-27T05:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/1 "2004-09-27T05:29:47Z")
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt) ```auto ╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ • ‘single’ and “double” quotes ║ ║ ║ ║ • Curly apostrophes: “We’ve been here” ║ ║ ║ ║ • Latin-1 apostrophe and accents: '´` ║ ║ ║ ║ • ‚deutsche‘ „Anführungszeichen“ ║ ║ ║ ║ • †, ‡, ‰, •, 3–4, —, −5/+5, ™, … ║ ║ ║ ║ • ASCII safety test: 1lI|, 0OD, 8B ║ ║ ╭─────────╮ ║ ║ • the euro symbol: │ 14.95 € │ ║ ║ ╰─────────╯ ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝ ``` Now, for some greeking: Σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν κόψη τοῦ σπαθιοῦ τὴν τρομερή, σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν ὄψη ποὺ μὲ βία μετράει τὴ γῆ. ᾿Απ᾿ τὰ κόκκαλα βγαλμένη τῶν ῾Ελλήνων τὰ ἱερά καὶ σὰν πρῶτα ἀνδρειωμένη χαῖρε, ὦ χαῖρε, ᾿Ελευθεριά! ᚻᛖ ᚳᚹᚫᚦ ᚦᚫᛏ ᚻᛖ ᛒᚢᛞᛖ ᚩᚾ ᚦᚫᛗ ᛚᚪᚾᛞᛖ ᚾᚩᚱᚦᚹᛖᚪᚱᛞᚢᛗ ᚹᛁᚦ ᚦᚪ ᚹᛖᛥᚫ ‘He cwaeth that he bude thaem lande northweardum with tha Westsae.’ ‘He said that he lived in the northern land near the Western sea.’ ```auto ▉ ╔══╦══╗ ┌──┬──┐ ╭──┬──╮ ╭──┬──╮ ┏━━┳━━┓ ┎┒┏┑ ╷ ╻ ┏┯┓ ┌┰┐ ▊ ╱╲╱╲╳╳╳ ║┌─╨─┐║ │╔═╧═╗│ │╒═╪═╕│ │╓─╁─╖│ ┃┌─╂─┐┃ ┗╃╄┙ ╶┼╴╺╋╸┠┼┨ ┝╋┥ ▋ ╲╱╲╱╳╳╳ ║│╲ ╱│║ │║ ║│ ││ │ ││ │║ ┃ ║│ ┃│ ╿ │┃ ┍╅╆┓ ╵ ╹ ┗┷┛ └┸┘ ▌ ╱╲╱╲╳╳╳ ╠╡ ╳ ╞╣ ├╢ ╟┤ ├┼─┼─┼┤ ├╫─╂─╫┤ ┣┿╾┼╼┿┫ ┕┛┖┚ ┌┄┄┐ ╎ ┏┅┅┓ ┋ ▍ ╲╱╲╱╳╳╳ ║│╱ ╲│║ │║ ║│ ││ │ ││ │║ ┃ ║│ ┃│ ╽ │┃ ░░▒▒▓▓██ ┊ ┆ ╎ ╏ ┇ ┋ ▎ ║└─╥─┘║ │╚═╤═╝│ │╘═╪═╛│ │╙─╀─╜│ ┃└─╂─┘┃ ░░▒▒▓▓██ ┊ ┆ ╎ ╏ ┇ ┋ ▏ ╚══╩══╝ └──┴──┘ ╰──┴──╯ ╰──┴──╯ ┗━━┻━━┛ ▗▄▖▛▀▜ └╌╌┘ ╎ ┗╍╍┛ ┋ ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ▝▀▘▙▄▟ ``` Firefox 1.0PR1 on Fedora Core 1 Linux handles all of these very well. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/2 "2004-09-27T17:29:01Z")
Mozilla on Mac OSX here, and I can get almost all of it. The coded parts don’t line up right, and I can’t read the line above the Welsh (it shows up as a line of question marks). ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/3 "2004-09-27T17:45:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Mozilla on Mac OSX here, and I can get almost all of it. The coded parts don’t line up right, and I can’t read the line above the Welsh (it shows up as a line of question marks). That line isn’t Welsh. The quote was taken from this site I think: [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt) (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.’) ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/4 "2004-09-27T20:10:46Z")
Opera 7.23 does the first set of characters okay, but with alignment issues. The Greek works almost flawlessly (the vowels that have diacritics are one pixel too high). The Runes are nothing but a series of square blocks ☹ and the graphics at bottom have just enough misalignment to render them totally incomprehensible. FWIW, IE6 fares worse - it doesn’t even get the Greek right. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/5 "2004-09-27T20:50:19Z")
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**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/6 "2004-09-28T00:56:10Z")
What character is this? 蛇 On IE6, via this board, it shows up as Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/7 "2004-09-28T01:15:45Z")
> [@SnakeSpirit](#): > > What character is this? > > 蛇 > > On IE6, via this board, it shows up as Chinese. It means “snake” , or in Japanese, へび Now it’s my turn! 煌 I wonder if this’ll show up. ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/8 "2004-09-28T03:02:40Z")
> [@Netbrian](#): > > It means “snake” , or in Japanese, へび > Now it’s my turn! > > 煌 I wonder if this’ll show up. It shows up on IBM Windows XP running IE6. Wish I knew more Chinese… BTW, do you have Chinese/Japanese characters that would translate to ‘SnakeSpirit?’ (in the interest of accuracy…) You can email me to avoid hijack: [spirit@hawaii.rr.com](mailto:spirit@hawaii.rr.com) ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-your-browser-handles-some-unicode/266263/9 "2004-09-28T07:27:50Z")
Mozilla 1.8 rc 2, with US English installed (which reminds me, I need to change that…) Big alignment problems on the box drawing, the Euro symbol lines, and the mathematical symbols selection. No Amharic, Braille or runes.