Hi, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think what he really meant (or if not, here's my take on it) was that NUL > bytes aren't *printable* text... like you'd say of low-value ASCII data. > Sure, it's technically "text," but most of it isn't something you can > represent visually in a useful manner. >
Exactly. I don't see why you would ever want a nul byte, in a situation where text is expected. Another way to put it, I don't think nul bytes are a user-explainable concept. If anybody who isn't a programmer sees (how? what's the glyph?) a nul byte in a _text_ file, that's just bizarre. In fact, why would anybody want that? In a binary file sure. But binary files aren't utf8 _at all_. As a side issue, I think in most cases programs likely break if they load a non-nul-terminated string, so it's convenient if g_utf8_validate() is catching that. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
