RE: discovering code points with embedded nulls

From: Kent Karlsson (kentk@md.chalmers.se)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 05:41:33 EST

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    > From what I'm hearing from you all is that a null in UTF-8 is
    > for termination and termination only.
    > Is this correct?

    No, NULL is a character (actually a control character) among many
    others. However, many C/C++ APIs (mis)use NULL as a string terminator
    since NULL isn't very useful for other things.

                    /kent k





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