String Encodings Decoded With Elixir

Know the working of strings

Everett Griffiths
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readApr 12, 2022

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Is UTF-8 some kind of unbreakable code?

It is time you gained membership in the secret society of the dark question marks �����. This may be the last explanation of encodings you will ever need to read.

I had run afoul of string encodings for years, but it wasn’t until I started working with Elixir that I finally really understood them. It’s been a few years since my…

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