… but also, sort-of, but not really, text: they get displayed to the user, they get input from the user, and they get emitted in logs, messages, etc. All as tex

… but also, sort-of, but not really, text: they get displayed to the user, they get input from the user, and they get emitted in logs, messages, etc. All as text. And that rub between where they're bytes but they should have been text, that's the problem and that's the complexity.