Library: Character encodings, UTF-8 (OMUTF8 ) Import: omutf8.xmd

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

Declaration

  define stream function utf8.encoding
  	of value integer n

You can use utf8.encoding 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:

  import "omutf8.xmd" prefixed by utf8.

  process
      submit file #main-input

  find any{2} => char
      output utf8.encoding of binary char

Related Concepts    Character set encoding

Other Library Functions    utf8.char    utf8.code-point    utf8.encoding    utf8.multi-byte-char    utf8.omutf8-version    utf8.single-byte-char

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