strings: mention UTF-8 in the package comment.

Also add a reference to the strings blog post.

Fixes #11045.

Change-Id: Ic0a8908cbd7b51a36d104849fa0e8abfd54de2b9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10662
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/strings/strings.go b/src/strings/strings.go
index 567a3c5bfae0acd306299ed0ebb4a97098081d4e..3f5f3f7f01386d57f551dda88fc9b7ccbdb9deb6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/strings/strings.go
+++ b/src/strings/strings.go
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
-// Package strings implements simple functions to manipulate strings.
+// Package strings implements simple functions to manipulate UTF-8 encoded strings.
+//
+// For information about UTF-8 strings in Go, see http://blog.golang.org/strings.
 package strings
 
 import (