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.TH Text.bytes 3 2025-09-06 "Tomo man-pages"
.SH NAME
Text.bytes \- get UTF8 bytes
.SH LIBRARY
Tomo Standard Library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI Text.bytes\ :\ 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".bytes()
= [65, 109, 195, 169, 108, 105, 101]
.EE