A gentle introduction to C* VI

Let us understand text encoding in C* source code, including the roles of ASCII and Unicode.

Welcome to part six of A gentle introduction to C*. Previously, we dove into the core nuts and bolts of C*’s prize feature, law & order. Today we will look into another novel aspect of the language: text encodings!

There are two sub-topics about text encoding that we’ll cover in this post. The first is the encoding of C* source code, and its rationale. T…