go.blog/strings: blog post about strings

R=golang-dev, dan.kortschak, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/15460049

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diff --git a/content/strings/encoding.go b/content/strings/encoding.go
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+// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	const nihongo = "日本語"
+	for i, w := 0, 0; i < len(nihongo); i += w {
+		runeValue, width := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(nihongo[i:])
+		fmt.Printf("%#U starts at byte position %d\n", runeValue, i)
+		w = width
+	}
+}