}-->

<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language as it was for
language version 1.17, in October 2021, before the introduction of generics.
It is provided for historical interest.
The current reference manual can be found <a href="/doc/go_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

<p>

runes("白鵬翔")              // []rune{0x767d, 0x9d6c, 0x7fd4}

[]myRune("♫♬")              // []myRune{0x266b, 0x266c}
[]myRune(myString("🌐"))    // []myRune{0x1f310}
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</li>

<li>
Finally, for historical reasons, an integer value may be converted to a string type.
This form of conversion yields a string containing the (possibly multi-byte) UTF-8
representation of the Unicode code point with the given integer value.