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Puzzle 3 Explanation: ASCII Encoding

Explore how ASCII encoding works and why certain characters in Go strings take multiple bytes. Understand the difference between byte length and rune count and learn to use the unicode/utf8 package for accurate string length measurement.

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Go (1.16.5)
package main
import (
	"fmt"
)
func main() {
	city := "Kraków"
	fmt.Println(len(city))
}
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