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Line 69: :Presumably it comes from the rather obvious expression "a string of characters" (as in "these go some characters stringing by"), equivalent to "a string of pearls" or "a sequence of characters" or other similar phrases. — [[User:Loadmaster\|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster\|talk]]) 16:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC) :I heard that it originated because in the old days of physical type-setting, the type was held together in groups by literal string (rope). I don't have any references for this, though, so I can't back it up. [[User:Showeropera\|Showeropera]] ([[User talk:Showeropera\|talk]]) 20:48, 14 December 2017 (UTC) == Trying to stop misuse of character encodings ==

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