UTF-8

1. Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go Relevant excerpt from the article:

   In short, Go source code is UTF-8, so the source code for the string literal is UTF-8 text.

2. Example of encoding in Go (Golang) Relevant excerpt from the article:

   Package encoding defines an interface for character encodings, such as Shift JIS and Windows 1252, that can convert to and from UTF-8.