[char] description = 'Receives zero or more integers, converts each one to its corresponding UTF-8 byte sequence and returns a string with the concatenation of all these sequences.' [charpattern] description = 'The pattern which matches exactly one UTF-8 byte sequence, assuming that the subject is a valid UTF-8 string.' [codes] description = [[ -------- ```lua for p, c in utf8.codes(s) do body end ``` ]] [codepoint] description = 'Returns the codepoints (as integers) from all characters in `s` that start between byte position `i` and `j` (both included).' [len] description = 'Returns the number of UTF-8 characters in string `s` that start between positions `i` and `j` (both inclusive).' [offset] description = 'Returns the position (in bytes) where the encoding of the `n`-th character of `s` (counting from position `i`) starts.'