ExplicateUTF8(1)

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Bestie, this is ExplicateUTF8(1) from the General Commands Manual 💅✨ It's giving main character energy, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ExplicateUTF8 — explains the status of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's how you call it, bestie 🧚

ExplicateUTF8 ((-o <byte offset>) <file name>)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so ExplicateUTF8 takes a peek at your input and checks whether it starts with a valid UTF8 Unicode sequence 👀 If it's invalid, it tells you exactly why 🙈 If it's valid, it explains why it's valid, gives you the equivalent UTF-32 code, and walks you through how that value got computed. The math is so iconic 🔥

If you don't give it a file name, ExplicateUTF8 just reads from the standard input. Lowkey the best default ever 🫶

✨ COMMAND LINE FLAGS ✨

Bestie, these are the flags you can throw at it 🎀

  • -h — Prints the usage message, so you can remember how to use it 📝
  • -o <byte offset> — Skips the first <byte offset> bytes of the input, like "nah, I don't need those" 🦋
  • -v — Prints the version information 🌸

✨ REFERENCES ✨

The receipts come from the Unicode Standard, version 4.1 📚✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

The iconic creator is Bill Poser 👑

billposer@alum.mit.edu 💌

✨ LICENSE ✨

This slay is released under the GNU General Public License 🌈

Okay, that's the whole tea, bestie 💜 This page is from the ExplicateUTF8(1) manual, dated December, 2003. Stay iconic 🧚💖

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