Unicode is a system used to represent the characters of the world’s written languages. Most English text uses a character set of only 127 characters (which requires 7 bits of storage and fits nicely into 8-bit bytes), but it’s naïve to believe that we won’t someday need an umlaut.

Perl strings

Perl strings can represent either of two separate but related data types:

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