Strings

Strings are created by enclosing Unicode characters in double quotes. Strings are UTF-8 encoded.

Special characters

The only special character is ". You can put a double quote inside a string by escaping it with a backslash:

a = "I can put a quote character, \", in my string using a backslash"

A newline (\n) requires a line break:

b = "And a '
' too!"

Other characters can be inserted literally (some text editors are better at this than others), or consider using chr().