title: Can a character span multiple runes in Go?
body: <p>I read this on <a href="http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in-go-golang/" rel="nofollow">this blog</a> </p>
  
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    <p>Even with rune slices a single character might span multiple runes, which can happen if you have characters with grave accent, for example. This complicated and ambiguous nature of "characters" is the reason why Go strings are represented as byte sequences.</p>
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  <p>Is it true ? (it seems like a blog from someone who knows Go). I tested on my machine and "è" is 1 rune and 2 bytes. And the <a href="https://blog.golang.org/strings" rel="nofollow">Go doc</a> seems to say otherwise.</p>
  
  <p>Have you encountered such characters ? (utf-8) Can a character span multiple runes in Go ?</p>