4 ms·erlang 'strings' are utf-8 encoded binaries also, they just have slightly terrible syntaxby querulous 10y agoerlang 'strings' are utf-8 encoded binaries also, they just have slightly terrible syntaxangersock 10y agoNot the lists of integers that happen to be characters.jeremyjh 10y agoThis is incorrect. In erlang the binary type is like a blob or byte array. Strings are linked lists of individual code points. Elixir encodes strings in erlang binaries.deleted 10y ago[deleted]