From 2c9be39099c04f82a118743b2b55830e145645ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Hofstetter Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:23:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add -U/--no-utf8 as extension of (un)expand --- docs/src/extensions.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/src/extensions.md b/docs/src/extensions.md index 6f394d490..86db20172 100644 --- a/docs/src/extensions.md +++ b/docs/src/extensions.md @@ -198,3 +198,9 @@ The number of random passes is deterministic in both GNU and uutils. However, uu GNU `unexpand` provides `--first-only` to convert only leading sequences of blanks. We support a second way: `-f` like busybox. + +Using `-U`/`--no-utf8`, you can interpret input files as 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8. + +## `expand` + +`expand` also offers the `-U`/`--no-utf8` option to interpret input files as 8-bit ASCII instead of UTF-8.