From f29217ae0c3ddb26f3bb437f26852ffe5f6d1623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] langref: reduce verbosity of string literal section

---
 doc/langref.html.in | 25 +++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/langref.html.in b/doc/langref.html.in
index 745518a04c..125bdaa36b 100644
--- a/doc/langref.html.in
+++ b/doc/langref.html.in
@@ -762,30 +762,19 @@ pub fn main() void {
       Dereferencing string literals converts them to {#link|Arrays#}.
       </p>
       <p>
-      The encoding of a string in Zig is de-facto assumed to be UTF-8.
-      Because Zig source code is {#link|UTF-8 encoded|Source Encoding#}, any non-ASCII bytes appearing within a string literal
-      in source code carry their UTF-8 meaning into the content of the string in the Zig program;
-      the bytes are not modified by the compiler.
-      However, it is possible to embed non-UTF-8 bytes into a string literal using <code>\xNN</code> notation.
-      </p>
-      <p>
-      Indexing into a string containing non-ASCII bytes will return individual bytes, whether valid
-      UTF-8 or not.
-      The {#link|Zig Standard Library#} provides routines for checking the validity of UTF-8 encoded
-      strings, accessing their code points and other encoding/decoding related tasks in
-      {#syntax#}std.unicode{#endsyntax#}.
+      Because Zig source code is {#link|UTF-8 encoded|Source Encoding#}, any
+      non-ASCII bytes appearing within a string literal in source code carry
+      their UTF-8 meaning into the content of the string in the Zig program;
+      the bytes are not modified by the compiler. It is possible to embed
+      non-UTF-8 bytes into a string literal using <code>\xNN</code> notation.
       </p>
+      <p>Indexing into a string containing non-ASCII bytes returns individual
+      bytes, whether valid UTF-8 or not.</p>
       <p>
       Unicode code point literals have type {#syntax#}comptime_int{#endsyntax#}, the same as
       {#link|Integer Literals#}. All {#link|Escape Sequences#} are valid in both string literals
       and Unicode code point literals.
       </p>
-      <p>
-      In many other programming languages, a Unicode code point literal is called a "character literal".
-      However, there is <a href="https://unicode.org/glossary">no precise technical definition of a "character"</a>
-      in recent versions of the Unicode specification (as of Unicode 13.0).
-      In Zig, a Unicode code point literal corresponds to the Unicode definition of a code point.
-      </p>
       {#code_begin|exe|string_literals#}
 const print = @import("std").debug.print;
 const mem = @import("std").mem; // will be used to compare bytes