UTF-8 text in many scripts

A plain-text file with the same sentence labelled in a dozen writing systems, including right-to-left scripts, combining marks and four-byte emoji.

sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt

906 B906 bytes

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Type: text/plain
SHA-256: a2d1ffb88b538df7dbbf4f260767feb6a0fe496dea80d7eac392c026370ca367
Direct URL: https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/samples/sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt

Why test with this file

Shows quickly whether a pipeline preserves UTF-8 end to end.

Scripts	Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, emoji
Byte order mark	No
Line endings	LF
Encoding	UTF-8

What to check

After your application has processed sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt, confirm that:

Every line looks the same after upload, storage and download.
Arabic and Hebrew lines display right to left.
The emoji line survives databases and APIs that only support three-byte UTF-8.

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt, exactly as they appear in the file.

UTF-8 sample text

English: Sample file for testing.
Français: Fichier d’exemple pour les tests — café, naïve, œuvre.
Deutsch: Beispieldatei zum Testen: Größe, Übung, Straße.
Español: Archivo de ejemplo para pruebas: ¿año?, ¡niño!
Ελληνικά: Δείγμα αρχείου για δοκιμές.
Русский: Пример файла для тестирования.
العربية: ملف نموذجي للاختبار.
עברית: קובץ לדוגמה לבדיקות.
हिन्दी: परीक्षण के लिए नमूना फ़ाइल।
ไทย: ไฟล์ตัวอย่างสำหรับการทดสอบ
中文: 用于测试的示例文件。
日本語: テスト用のサンプルファイル。

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Technical details

File name	sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt
Format	TXT (Plain text)
Extension	.txt
MIME type	text/plain
Size	906 bytes (906 B)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	a2d1ffb88b538df7dbbf4f260767feb6a0fe496dea80d7eac392c026370ca367
Created	2026-10-10
Validation	Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Documents

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sha256sum sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-text-utf8-multilingual.txt # macOS

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About TXT

Unformatted text with no structure beyond characters and line breaks. The simplest possible upload.

TXT format reference

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