ENTRIGRAPH(1)

💖 ENTRIGRAPH 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual, section 1, page for entrigraph — the little glow-up tool that makes your C code ✨fancy✨ by turning it into trigraphs. yes this is real. yes it's a whole thing. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

entrigraph — convert C source code to use trigraphs 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

entrigraph [file ...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it some files (or don't, no pressure bestie) and it does its thing 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: this program takes a C program and converts it so that it uses trigraphs. not me explaining trigraphs in the group chat but here we go 🧚

a trigraph is a three character sequence that encodes a single character. a trigraph begins with two question marks — literally ??, iconic. then the third character is whatever, and that third character is what decides which single character the trigraph actually means. it's giving secret code energy 🔥

here's the full lineup, no cap, every single one:

• /' — the trigraph means \
• ( — the trigraph means [
• ) — the trigraph means ]
• < — the trigraph means {
• > — the trigraph means }
• ! — the trigraph means |
• ' — the trigraph means ^
• - — the trigraph means ~
• = — the trigraph means /
• / — the trigraph means \

see how the third character is the thing that matters? the way that ??< becomes { and ??> becomes }… chef's kiss, obsessed, periodt 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• untrigraph(1) — the reverse situation, iykyk 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lars Wirzenius, liw@iki.fi. king behavior fr fr, thank you for your service 🫶✨

heads up bestie: this page lives in the General Commands Manual (section 1) and its footer is literally just the page title again — ENTRIGRAPH(1) — no date, no version number, nothing extra. so that's the whole thing 💀

💖 that's a wrap! go convert some C, bestie, and remember: two question marks and a vibe. mwah 💅🌸🦋