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themselves, while symbols evaluate to whatever they are bound to. To have a
symbol evaluate to itself, it must be quoted.
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<h2 id="Strings">Strings
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<p>Strings can be used similarly to keywords, but their 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