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 =={{header|Lua}}==
-Lua strings treat each byte as being invariably one whole character (hence the awkwardness of trying to use it with unicode), so it's safe to use string methods to truncate binary data.
+Lua treats strings as being invariably one byte per character (hence the awkwardness of trying to use it with unicode), so it's safe to use string methods to truncate binary data.
 <lang Lua>function truncate (filename, length)
     local inFile = io.open(filename, 'r')