From 07bba2229a07d17f6d41ccf83c425af9abc65450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simon987 <me@simon987.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:03:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] More info on string literals

---
 Assembler-directives.md | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Assembler-directives.md b/Assembler-directives.md
index 8ba3993..d94af00 100644
--- a/Assembler-directives.md
+++ b/Assembler-directives.md
@@ -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: