="mdzsyn-string">"plumber"</span>
} <span class="mdzsyn-keyword">:age</span>)</code></pre><p>Strings can be used similarly to keywords, but there primary usage is for defining either text
or arbitrary sequences of bytes. Strings (and symbols) in janet are what is sometimes known as
Àù8-bit cleanÀù; they can hold any number of bytes, and are completely unaware of things like character
encodings. This is completely compatible with ASCII and UTF-8, two of the most common character
encodings. By being encod