The utf8gen utility reads in ASCII hexadecimal numbers, one per line, and outputs UTF-8 encoded bytes as characters viewable on a terminal screen or numeric values, or both. This package is meant to serve as a utility for programmers to perform batch conversion of a large number of Unicode code points into a format suitable for their favorite programming language, and for the inquisitive user who would just like to see if their installed fonts support a given Unicode printable character.
More information is available in the following documents:
The latest source tarball and GnuPG signature file can be downloaded at these links:
Installing Utf8gen
To install the Utf8gen package on a system with a Unix-style command line interface (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Cygwin, etc.), type these commands in a terminal window:
./configure make make check make install make clean
The "make check
" command will run three tests
using sample text files that are in the "test
"
directory.
The "make install
" command might need to be run as
"sudo make install
" on your system. By default,
the utf8gen
program will be installed in
"/usr/local/bin
"
and the man (manual) page will be installed in
"/usr/local/share/man/man1
".
License
The software on this site, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 2.0, or (at your option) a later version.