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		bradfitz 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Traps to Developers > Golang use UTF-8 for in-memory string. Nope. It’s just bytes with no encoding. https://go.dev/blog/strings

qouteall 4 months ago | [–]

Corrected.

ivanjermakov 4 months ago | [–]

There is no such thing as "just bytes" when it comes to Unicode. UTF-8 is a way to represent Unicode codepoints in binary.

But I agree that author's statement is wrong. Go stings are equivalent to byte slices.

bradfitz 4 months ago | [–]

Go strings are just bytes. There is no Unicode or encodings.

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