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About Chars

Clojure uses the underlying java.lang.Character type, which is a 16 bit quantity to represent the smallest addressable components of text. Multiple chars can comprise a string such as "word" or chars can be processed independently. Their literals are written like \a \b \c.

Clojure's chars support UTF-16 Unicode encoding so in addition to the latin character set pretty much all the writing systems in use world can be represented, e.g. the Greek letter 'β'.

There are many library methods to inspect and manipulate chars. These can be accessed by interop as the methods of the Character class. Clojure also includes a built-in string utility library, clojure.string, which offers many powerful functions for operating on characters.