Moved an example from the string.rst to the examples directory.

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diff --git a/docs/examples/tutorial/string/to_char.pyx b/docs/examples/tutorial/string/to_char.pyx
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+# define a global name for whatever char type is used in the module

+ctypedef unsigned char char_type

+

+cdef char_type[:] _chars(s):

+    if isinstance(s, unicode):

+        # encode to the specific encoding used inside of the module

+        s = (<unicode>s).encode('utf8')

+    return s