Definition: The word "ga_utf8" is a piece of software called Gnu Text that translates computer files to UTF-8 encoding for easier access, not a human-readable ASCII text. It's used in the GNU software distribution to make it easier to write human-readable text. The definition of 'utf-8' (which is itself an acronym) is "UTF-8 (wide format, also known as ISO 10646), standard for encoding and decoding of the Unicode character set."