Aleksandr · Feb 21

Which reminds me, I forgot to mention that JavaScript uses UTF-16 instead of UTF-8, unlike Elixir and most other languages. As seen in your screenshot, those 7 UTF-8 bytes are 0x32 (ASCII), a 3-byte code point starting w/ 0xef (11101111), and another 3-byte code point starting w/ 0xe2 (11100010).