Elixir and Unicode, Part 2: Working with Unicode Strings This post was adapted from a talk called “String Theory”, which I co-presented with James Edward Gray II at Elixir & Phoenix Conf 2016. In my post on Unicode and UTF-8, I showed you the basis of Elixir’s great Unicode support: every string in Elixir is a series of codepoints, encoded in UTF-8. I explained what Unicode is, and we walked throu
