UTF-8 encoder/decoder

A simple UTF-8 encoder and decoder.

Motivation

I did this as a start project of learning deeper how systems programming works, since it is something that really gets my attention.

Learnings

With this project I could understand how UTF-8's treatment are under the hood, got a better understanding of how C strings work and created my first Makefile.

References

I used only this UTF-8 article from Wikipedia to see how the encoding is made, and to the decoding, I just used the reverse logic.

Build it yourself

If you want try it on your machine, you can use the following commands:

To clone the repo and get inside it:

git clone https://github.com/Lohan-Yrvine/utf-8
cd utf-8

To only compile the program:

make

To run (and compile, if needed):

make run

To clean the executable and object files:

make clean