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Idiom #304 Encode string into UTF-8 bytes

Create the array of bytes data by encoding the string s in UTF-8.

var
  data: pbyte absolute s;

Declare data as a variable that points to the same absolute address as the string s.
The type pbyte (pointer to a byte) can be accessed as an array, so data[0] is the first byte of the string.
const data = new TextEncoder().encode(s);
data = s.bytes

UTF-8 is the default string encoding.
data = s.encode('utf8')
data := []byte(s)

In Go, it is idiomatic that strings are already encoded in UTF-8. So we can grab their raw bytes directly.
using System.Text;
byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s);
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var
  data: pbyte absolute s;
const data = new TextEncoder().encode(s);
data = s.bytes
data = s.encode('utf8')
data := []byte(s)
byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s);
byte data[] = s.getBytes(UTF_8);
my $text = 'Café';

utf8::encode($text);

my @utf8 = unpack('C*', $text);

my $text = 'Café';

my @utf8 = unpack 'C*', Encode::encode 'UTF-8', $text;



let data = s.into_bytes();