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Re:Charset="WTF-8" by shakna on Monday November 25, 2024 @01:28AM (#42233770)
> Strings are not arrays of bytes.

That very much depends on the language that you are using. In some, they are.

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Re:Charset="WTF-8" by 77pt77 on Monday November 25, 2024 @11:59PM (#42242737)
No.

Those languages don't have strings.

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Re:Charset="WTF-8" by shakna on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @04:58AM (#42244181)
So Lua doesn't have strings? The type is called a string. The documentation calls it a string. It's certainly not a buffer.
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