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UTF-8 decoder capability and stress test
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Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - 2003-02-19
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This test file can help you examine, how your UTF-8 decoder handles
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various types of correct, malformed, or otherwise interesting UTF-8
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sequences. This file is not meant to be a conformance test. It does
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not prescribes any particular outcome and therefore there is no way to
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"pass" or "fail" this test file, even though the texts suggests a
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preferable decoder behaviour at some places. The aim is instead to
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help you think about and test the behaviour of your UTF-8 on a
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systematic collection of unusual inputs. Experience so far suggests
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that most first-time authors of UTF-8 decoders find at least one
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serious problem in their decoder by using this file.
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The test lines below cover boundary conditions, malformed UTF-8
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sequences as well as correctly encoded UTF-8 sequences of Unicode code
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points that should never occur in a correct UTF-8 file.
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According to ISO 10646-1:2000, sections D.7 and 2.3c, a device
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receiving UTF-8 shall interpret a "malformed sequence in the same way
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that it interprets a character that is outside the adopted subset" and
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"characters that are not within the adopted subset shall be indicated
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to the user" by a receiving device. A quite commonly used approach in
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UTF-8 decoders is to replace any malformed UTF-8 sequence by a
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replacement character (U+FFFD), which looks a bit like an inverted
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question mark, or a similar symbol. It might be a good idea to
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visually distinguish a malformed UTF-8 sequence from a correctly
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encoded Unicode character that is just not available in the current
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font but otherwise fully legal, even though ISO 10646-1 doesn't
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mandate this. In any case, just ignoring malformed sequences or
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unavailable characters does not conform to ISO 10646, will make
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debugging more difficult, and can lead to user confusion.
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Please check, whether a malformed UTF-8 sequence is (1) represented at
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all, (2) represented by exactly one single replacement character (or
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equivalent signal), and (3) the following quotation mark after an
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illegal UTF-8 sequence is correctly displayed, i.e. proper
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resynchronization takes place immageately after any malformed
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sequence. This file says "THE END" in the last line, so if you don't
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see that, your decoder crashed somehow before, which should always be
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cause for concern.
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All lines in this file are exactly 79 characters long (plus the line
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feed). In addition, all lines end with "|", except for the two test
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lines 2.1.1 and 2.2.1, which contain non-printable ASCII controls
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U+0000 and U+007F. If you display this file with a fixed-width font,
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these "|" characters should all line up in column 79 (right margin).
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This allows you to test quickly, whether your UTF-8 decoder finds the
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correct number of characters in every line, that is whether each
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malformed sequences is replaced by a single replacement character.
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Note that as an alternative to the notion of malformed sequence used
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here, it is also a perfectly acceptable (and in some situations even
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preferable) solution to represent each individual byte of a malformed
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sequence by a replacement character. If you follow this strategy in
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your decoder, then please ignore the "|" column.
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Here come the tests: |
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1 Some correct UTF-8 text |
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You should see the Greek word 'kosme': "κόσμε" |
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2 Boundary condition test cases |
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2.1 First possible sequence of a certain length |
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2.1.1 1 byte (U-00000000): " |