Question

I need some Utf32 test strings to exercise some cross platform string manipulation code. I’d like a suite of test strings that exercise the utf32 <-> utf16 <-> utf8 encodings to validate that characters outside the BMP can be transformed from utf32, through utf16 surrogates, through utf8, and back. properly.

And I always find it a bit more elegant if the strings in question aren’t just composed of random bytes, but are actually meaningful in the (various) languages they encode.

Answer 1

Although this isn’t quite what you asked for, I’ve always found this test document useful.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt

The same site offers this

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt

… which are equivalents of English’s “Quick brown fox” text, which exercise all the characters used, for a variety of languages. This page refers to a larger list of “pangrams” which used to be on Wikipedia, but was apparently deleted there. It is still available here:

http://clagnut.com/blog/2380/