String – Elixir v1.1.1

Elixir v1.1.1 String A String in Elixir is a UTF-8 encoded binary. Codepoints and graphemes The functions in this module act according to the Unicode Standard, version 6.3.0. As per the standard, a codepoint is a Unicode Character, which may be represented by one or more bytes. For example, the character “é” is represented with two bytes: iex> byte_size("é") 2 However, this module returns the prop