Library: UTF-8 text processing (UTF8PAT legacy) Include: utf8pat.xin

Return type: String Returns: A string representing the UTF-8 encoding of the specified Unicode character code.

Declaration

define string function utf8-encoded 
    value integer n

You can use utf8-encoded to convert an integer containing a Unicode character code to a string of bytes containing the UTF-8 encoding of that character code.

The following program converts a long character encoding (2 bytes per character) to a UTF-8 encoding:

  include utf8pat.xin
  
  process
      submit file #main-input
  
  find any{2} => char
      output utf8-encoded binary char

Other Library Functions multi-byte-utf8-char single-byte-utf8-char utf8-char utf8-char-number utf8-encoded

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