Test Table of Unicode Characters

Ā Á Ă À
ā á ă à

Ǖ Ǘ Ǚ Ǜ
ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ

The top two lines at the left should be A or a with diacritics to indicate Chinese tones. These letters are extensively used on the China-related pages of this web site.

The third and fourth lines should be the letter ü with the same diacritics.

Ĉ ĉ Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ
Ĵ ĵ Ŝ ŝ Ŭ ŭ 		The letters at left should be the circumflexed letters of Esperanto.
Я говорю по-русски.
Αυτου οι θανατον μητσομαι 		The top line at left should be in Russian, the lower line in Greek.
中 華 民 族
中 华 民 族 		There should be eight Chinese characters at the left, the top row traditional, the lower row simplified.

For a more comprehensive test including many other languages, click here

What To Do If It All Looks Wrong

All of the non-Chinese characters shown above are available in the new version of the "Times New Roman" type font (incorporating the "WGL4" Unicode subset of 652 characters). Click here to obtain a free update of Microsoft's Times New Roman (my own preference). Click here for information about character sets supplied with different brands for web browsers.

The Chinese chracters require a Unicode font covering that portion of the code tables. Examples are SimSun (or earlier MS Song) and PMingLiU (or earlier MingLiU), from Microsoft, free with some Microsoft products.

"Arial Unicode MS" is a(n ugly) font from Microsoft that contains all officially designated Unicode characters.

Last modified: 031210