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      4 Markus Kuhn [maks kun] <mkuhn (a] acm.org>  2002-07-25
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      7 The ASCII compatible UTF-8 encoding used in this plain-text file
      8 is defined in Unicode, ISO 10646-1, and RFC 2279.
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     11 Using Unicode/UTF-8, you can write in emails and source code things such as
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     13 Mathematics and sciences:
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     15    Eda = Q,  n  ,  f(i) =  g(i),      
     16                                             a+b 
     17   x: x = x,    = (  ),     
     18                                              c   
     19             ,                          
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     21    < a  b  c  d    (A  B),            
     22                                              a-b
     23   2H + O  2HO, R = 4.7 k,  200 mm     i=1    
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     25 Linguistics and dictionaries:
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     27   i ntnnl fntk sosien
     28   Y [psiln], Yen [jn], Yoga [jog]
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     30 APL:
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     32   ((VV)=V)/V,V    
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     34 Nicer typography in plain text files:
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     36   
     37                                             
     38       single and double quotes         
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     40       Curly apostrophes: Weve been here 
     41                                             
     42       Latin-1 apostrophe and accents: '`  
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     44       deutsche Anfhrungszeichen       
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     46       , , , , 34, , 5/+5, ,       
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     48       ASCII safety test: 1lI|, 0OD, 8B     
     49                                  
     50       the euro symbol:  14.95           
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     56   STARGTE SG-1, a = v = r, a  b
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     58 Greek (in Polytonic):
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     60   The Greek anthem:
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     62       
     63      ,
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     70   ,  , !
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     72   From a speech of Demosthenes in the 4th century BC:
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     77      ,    
     78     ,      
     79      .     
     80         ,   ,
     81        .  ,  
     82             
     83   ,       ,  
     84          
     85       ,   
     86   .     ,    
     87            
     88      ,    
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     91   ,  
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     93 Georgian:
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     95   From a Unicode conference invitation:
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     97       Unicode-  
     98    ,   10-12 ,
     99   . , .    
    100         Unicode-,
    101     , Unicode- 
    102    ,   , ,
    103        .
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    105 Russian:
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    107   From a Unicode conference invitation:
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    110   Unicode,   10-12  1997     .
    111           
    112     Unicode,   ,  
    113    Unicode      
    114   , ,     .
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    116 Thai (UCS Level 2):
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    118   Excerpt from a poetry on The Romance of The Three Kingdoms (a Chinese
    119   classic 'San Gua'):
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    131   (The above is a two-column text. If combining characters are handled
    132   correctly, the lines of the second column should be aligned with the
    133   | character above.)
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    135 Ethiopian:
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    137   Proverbs in the Amharic language:
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    162   (Old English, which transcribed into Latin reads 'He cwaeth that he
    163   bude thaem lande northweardum with tha Westsae.' and means 'He said
    164   that he lived in the northern land near the Western Sea.')
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    189   (The first couple of paragraphs of "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens)
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    191 Compact font selection example text:
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    193   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ /0123456789
    194   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
    195     
    196      ?
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    198 Greetings in various languages:
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    200   Hello world,  , 
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    202 Box drawing alignment tests:                                          
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