I’m planning to learn Erlang. I’ve seen forum answers that Erlang and Elixir are quite the same. After learning Elixir, in what part of Erlang should I start learning given that I learned Elixir. And if I should avoid some parts of Erlang that are already in Elixir to avoid redundancy. (if there are)
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Great! Thank you!
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The erlang :string module is now UTF-8 aware. Generally speaking the erlang syntax is simpler with very few “special cases” and basically only one way of writing things.
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Ah, so there’s an outdated piece of that tutorial
In Elixir, the word string means a UTF-8 binary and there is a
Stringmodule that works on such data. Elixir also expects your source files to be UTF-8 encoded. On the other hand, string in Erlang refers to char lists and there is a:stringmodule, that’s not UTF-8 aware and works mostly with char lists.
We should remove “that’s not UTF-8 aware”?
Edit: I took the liberty of creating a PR Update crash-course.markdown by gvaughn · Pull Request #1185 · elixir-lang/elixir-lang.github.com · GitHub
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I’ve done the same, bought this book that is also available online https://learnyousomeerlang.com/content it’s a nice deep dive into the Erlang language as well as OTP, it’s not that up to date though but the basics don’t change that often 
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Yes. It now also works on binary strings as well list strings and and on combinations of both. It also knows about grapheme clusters though I haven’t tested this. Someone had a lot of fun. 
The old latin-1 interface is still there but will be deprecated in the future.
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Not gone through this yet but adding it here:
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Check out all of the wonderful Erlang books 
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