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+'\" t
+.\" Copyright (c) 2025 Bruce Hill
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.TH Text.utf8 3 2025-09-09 "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 lb
+l l l l.
+Name	Type	Description	Default
+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
+>> "Amélie".utf8()
+= [65, 109, 195, 169, 108, 105, 101]
+.EE