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Puzzle 20 Explanation: Go Rune

Puzzle 20 Explanation: Go Rune

Understand more about Unicode in Go.

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Try executing the code below to see the result.

Go (1.16.5)
package main
import (
	"fmt"
)
func main() {
	msg := "π = 3.14159265358..."
	fmt.Printf("%T ", msg[0])
	for _, c := range msg {
		fmt.Printf("%T\n", c)
		break
	}
}

Explanation

Go strings are UTF-8 encoded. Go will access the underlying []byte when we access a string with ...