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7. Strings and Buffers

ASCII, UTF-8 strings, and raw buffers.

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Clarity distinguishes between `string-ascii`, `string-utf8`, and raw byte sequences (`buff`).

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"Hello World" ;; string-ascii
u"Hello 🌍"   ;; string-utf8
0x010203      ;; buff

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  1. 1. How do you denote a UTF-8 string literal?

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