Hi Wojtek,

> I've noticed this when messing around with my .emacs file. When you have a
> file with a null character somewhere within a double-quoted string
> (e.g. "\0") and you try to insert it into the current buffer with :r, then
> it breaks Vip

Right, this is a limitation of Vip (and PicoLisp in general): It can handle only
files with non-null characters in UTF-8 encoding.

Characters in PicoLisp are symbols, and a null-byte works as a name terminator
(similar to C), so symbols cannot have names with null-bytes.

☺/ A!ex

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