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@@ -95,16 +95,19 @@ mynumber: DW 0x0000
 
 ### String literals
 
+You can use the `DW` to store strings, for example:
+
 ```asm
 my_str: DW "Hello"
 
+; This is assembled to:
+;  00 48 00 65 00 6C 00 6C 00 6F 
+
 .text
 MOV A, [my_str] ; Value of A is now 'H'
 ```
 
-
-### Character literals
-// NOT IMPLEMENTED
+Java escape sequences are handled (`\u0000`, `\"`. `\0` `\t` etc) and strings are encoded to 16-bit big endian.
 
 
 You can combine any type of literal values in a single line, for example: