>strings are text I do not completely agree with that. Text is what strings are mostly used for, but I wouldn't call a base64 encoded image text. Text is somet

>strings are text I do not completely agree with that. Text is what strings are mostly used for, but I wouldn't call a base64 encoded image text. Text is something a person can read and make sense of. So I think it would be more accurate to say that a string is a sequence of characters (grapheme clusters in unicode speak).