 and UTF-8, two of the most common character
encodings. By being encoding agnostic, Janet strings can be simple, fast, and
useful for other uses besides holding text.
</p>
<p>Literal text can be entered inside quotes, as we have seen above.
</p>
<pre class="mendoza-codeblock"><code data-language="janet"><span class="mdzsyn-string">"Hello, this is a string."</span>

<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># We can also add escape characters for newlines, double quotes, backslash, tabs, etc.</span>
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