I believe that's still true of Erlang, but Elixir has UTF-8 encoded strings. In practice the only time you need to use Erlang strings from Elixir is if you're u

I believe that's still true of Erlang, but Elixir has UTF-8 encoded strings. In practice the only time you need to use Erlang strings from Elixir is if you're using an Erlang API.