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How to convert string text to utf8 in golang (go language)?
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The string literals in go are encoded in UTF-8 by default. From the official golang blog
Go source code is UTF-8, so the source code for the string literal is UTF-8 text
However this doesn't apply to the escape characters, such as :
If that string literal contains no escape sequences, which a raw string cannot, the constructed string will hold exactly the source text between the quotes.
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