UTF7ENCODE(1)

💖 UTF7ENCODE 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the utf7encode page 💅 this is from the System Administration manual, and it's giving tiny-but-mighty filter energy ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

utf7encode, utf7decode — a filter that encodes stuff as UTF-7 🦋 (and decodes it too, we contain multitudes)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

utf7encode [ -d] textfile
utf7decode textfile

ngl the space in [ -d] is exactly how it's written, so we're keeping it, no notes 😌

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea 🍓: this program takes a textfile and encodes it — or decodes it — line by line with UTF-7. line by line, bestie. every single one. it does not skip. it does not get tired. it's an icon 💅

and here's the little plot twist 👑: if the program is called as utf7decode, then the file you hand it gets decoded instead. same program, different name, different vibe. main character behaviour fr fr ✨

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

these options are accepted, babes 🫶

• -d — don't encode, decode the file instead. it's giving "flip the switch, reverse the flow" 🔄

👑 AUTHOR 👑

utf7encode has been written by Ulli Horlacher — hit them up at framstag@belwue.de> 💌 (yes we're keeping that bracket situation exactly as it is, it's part of the lore, iykyk 🙈)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• sendfile(1) — go read it, bestie, it's right there 🦋

and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 this was the UTF7ENCODE(1) situation, dated 19 March 1998 — yes she's an elder icon and she ate 🌈⭐ thanks for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💋🎀