glass: Multilingual sample text

glassR Documentation

Multilingual sample text

Description

This dataset contains translations into many languages of the esoteric sentence "I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt me", UTF-8 encoded. Since this dataset uses characters from a range of scripts, it provides a useful test set for text handling and character encodings.

Usage

glass

Format

A named character vector, whose elements are translations of the sentence, and are named for the appropriate language in each case.

Source

The translations were gathered by Frank da Cruz and written by a large group of contributors. Notes, commentary and a full list of credits are online at https://kermitproject.org/utf8.html.


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