UTF8(1)

✨ UTF8(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the utf8 page, from your very own General Commands Manual 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

utf8 — the lil script that quickly flips your console font and your console mode straight into UTF-8 encoding 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

utf8 [filename]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This manual page documents the utf8 command. yes, this one. the one you're reading. we're documenting the documentation-adjacent situation, it's very meta, it's giving main character energy 👑

utf8 is a simple shell script — no cap, just a shell script — that selects a UTF-8 console font and switches the console into UTF-8 mode. two jobs. does them both. slay ✨

If no filename is given, the 512 character font LatCyrGr-16.psf is used. that's the default, that's the vibe, that's what you get when you just type utf8 and hit enter 💅

Otherwise filename is assumed to be a font name to be used. so like, you hand it a font name and it uses that font. simple as 🫶

If filename is 2, a special 256 character font called chavo.psf is used. yes, literally the number two. not a file called two, not a typo, just 2. iconic behaviour honestly 😭

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Radovan Garabík <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>, for the fonty-rg package. thank you Radovan, we owe you one fr fr 💜

💖 COMMENT 💖

This manpage is in UTF-8 encoding. This is intentional.

not me pointing out that a manpage about UTF-8 is itself in UTF-8 😭 it's called commitment bestie, it's called living your truth ✨

and that's the whole page, gorgeous 🎀 it was last touched on 2002-08-30 and it lives in the UTF8(1) slot of the General Commands Manual. go forth, switch that console, and remember: UTF-8 is the only encoding with main character energy 💅🌟