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.TH Text.utf8 3 2025-11-29 "Tomo man-pages"
.SH NAME
Text.utf8 \- get UTF8 bytes
.SH LIBRARY
Tomo Standard Library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI Text.utf8\ :\ func(text:\ Text\ ->\ [Byte])
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Converts a `Text` value to a list of bytes representing a UTF8 encoding of the text.


.SH ARGUMENTS

.TS
allbox;
lb lb lbx
l l l.
Name	Type	Description
text	Text	The text to be converted to UTF8 bytes. 
.TE
.SH RETURN
A list of bytes (`[Byte]`) representing the text in UTF8 encoding.

.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
assert "Amélie".utf8() == [65, 109, 195, 169, 108, 105, 101]
.EE
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR Tomo-Text (3)