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A string is a linear sequence of uniform-sized tokens (e.g., bytes). Clients interpret the sequence of tokens into characters according to some `encoding'. The encoding may be a simple 1-to-1 mapping, or something more complex where characters may be encoded with varying length sub-sequences.
A bunch of characters in a row.