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Table of Contents for Programming Languages: a survey

Chapter : Strings

immutable vs. mutable

keywords

internationalization

separating strings from source code files

unicode intro encode, decode cannot assume one byte per character

unicode in operations

unicode in source code files

UTF-8 and ASCII, esp. in source file

regular expressions

C vs. Pascal style vs. linked lists

haskell strings as linked lists; need for ByteString?; unicode

EOL and EOF

Unix vs. Windows EOL characters

newline at end of file (trivia: the C standard requires one)