# Strings
All strings in AZ64 are UTF-8 encoded. They are written enclosed in double
quotes (`"`):
* `"Hello World"`
* `"not a number: 1234"`
* `"Howdy, cowboy 🤠"`
Use C-style escape sequences to write special characters inside a string:
* `"line break: \n"`
* `"tab: \t"`
* `"double-quote: \""`
Multi-line strings can be written by placing a backslash immediately before the
line break:
```
"multi\
line\
string"
```
To encode a byte directly, place a backslash before a hexadecimal number:
```
"capital Q: \$51"
```
## Multicharacter Literals
AZ65 also supports the multicharacter literal that is present in C.
You can specify big-endian 32-bit values as a sequence of 1 to 4 ASCII
characters enclosed in single quotes (`'`):
```
'a'
'yo'
'test'
```