Re: UTF-8 text samples

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Oct 19 1998 - 09:37:34 EDT


Francois Yergeau wrote:

> A virtual lollipop to anyone who can tell the language -- without looking
> at the source or the character codes!

Well, that's pretty hopeless when ny largest Unicode font renders it
as a bunch of boxes plus some Western punctuation here and there. The
picture looks South Indian, but the letterforms are too blurry to make
out.

So I cheated and looked at the source.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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