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+# Strings 
+
+Draco corelib will not use, or expose .NET System.String as the default string reprensation.  
+
+This is motived by the fact that System.Strings are encoded in UTF16, and the industry has since chosen UTF-8 as THE standard for text encoding.
+.NET itself want to add an Utf8String: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/933
+
+Additional reading:  
+https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string